Shane Tamura’s former high-school soccer coach stated Tuesday he doesn’t recall the killer struggling greater than an ankle damage on the sector — and an ex-teammate insisted accidents have been unusual of their league.
Tamura, 27, had claimed in notes left behind after his bloody Midtown rampage Monday that he suffered from power traumatic encephalopathy, a mind situation higher referred to as CTE and related to athletes akin to soccer gamers.
However his former California coach instructed The Submit he doesn’t imagine his ex-gridiron star ever suffered a head damage — at the very least throughout his senior yr when he oversaw him.
“I solely keep in mind an ankle,” stated ex-Granada Hills Constitution College soccer coach Walter Roby.
“I keep in mind it might need stored him out of 1 recreation, however one thing of that nature. I can’t keep in mind if it was left or proper.”
Roby stated he coached Tamura his senior yr after the participant transferred from Golden Valley Excessive College and doesn’t imagine he went on to play faculty soccer.
“I can by no means recall being engaged relating to Shane for faculty,” he stated.
Tamura appeared on the Granada Hills Constitution soccer roster for the 2015-2016, in response to an previous Max Preps web page. He was listed as 5-foot-7 and weighing about 170 kilos.
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Tamura shot and killed 4 folks, together with an NYPD cop, when he stormed 345 Park Ave. in Manhattan, which homes the NFL headquarters.
The wicked gunman blamed the professional soccer league for his alleged points with CTE —and pleaded for his mind to be studied — in notes left behind after he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, regulation enforcement sources stated.
A former Granada Hills Constitution teammate who performed with him additionally stated he didn’t keep in mind Tamura struggling a head damage whereas he starred as a operating again at Granada Hills.
How the capturing unfolded
- Stories of the capturing at 345 Park Ave. begin coming in round 6:28 p.m.
- Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets with an M4 rifle.
- He enters the foyer and turns proper, the place he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, useless.
- Tamura weapons down a girl cowering behind a pillar within the foyer, sprays extra bullets and walks towards the elevator financial institution — the place he shoots useless a safety guard crouching at his desk.
- Yet one more man stories being shot and injured within the foyer. He was in vital however steady situation.
- The gunman permits a girl to stroll out of the elevators unhurt earlier than heading as much as the thirty third flooring, the place constructing proprietor Rudin Properties’ places of work are situated, “and begins to stroll the ground, firing as he traveled.”
- One girl is shot and killed on that flooring earlier than Tamura shoots himself within the chest.
- It’s unclear how lengthy the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
“I feel comparatively Tamura was wholesome,” stated the 28-year-old, who didn’t wish to be recognized, to The Submit. “I don’t keep in mind any accidents.”
The teammate emphasised soccer of their league wasn’t as intense as different elements of California and that Granada Hills is extra targeted on lecturers somewhat than athletics.
“It was the Valley. There was not a lot competitors right here within the Valley,” he stated, including it was “not tough in any respect. Accidents have been far in between.”
Whereas the competitors wasn’t lower throat, Tamura stood out and impressed on the sector.
“He was a operating again and I feel he match completely within the staff. He by no means felt a lot stress, I do know the coaches anticipated rather a lot as a result of he was identified to be a extremely good participant and the second that he was in he ran the ball actually good,” the teammate recalled.
