A background check on Shane Tamura had not been been completed before he purchased the AR-style weapon used to fatally shoot four people in Manhattan.
Shootings
The deputy shot and killed the person after they charged the deputy while holding a knife, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said.
A road was closed west of the Las Vegas Strip is closed for a shooting investigation.
New information shows Shane Tamura was placed on a “L2K” mental health hold in 2022 and again in 2024, two months before he purchased the firearm he used to kill four and himself in New York City.
The shooter who killed four people in a Manhattan office building housing the NFL’s headquarters had sought medical treatment for debilitating headaches, ESPN reported on Sunday.
Authorities confiscated several items from a Las Vegas apartment tied to a gunman who used an AR-15-style rifle to kill four people in Manhattan, according to records made public Friday.
Authorities have said the livestreamed shooting that killed two in front of the Fountains of Bellagio stemmed from a social media feud.
Attorney Chris Rasmussen said the killer’s boss, Rick Ackley, “did everything right. The transfer was through a federal firearms licensee and it was all lawful.”
Jacob Lister, 26, was arrested in connection with a shooting in the 7800 block of West Ford Avenue, near South Buffalo Drive.
The shooter, a 26-year-old Reno resident, died in the overnight hours, police announced.
The two 23-year-old men were in town from California for a bachelor party, and the third victim was a 66-year-old man who lived in the area, authorities said.
Shane Tamura, the Las Vegas man responsible for a NYC shooting that left 4 dead, blamed football and the NFL for his perceived struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tamura used an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle in Monday’s shooting that he assembled using a lower receiver purchased by an associate.
Details about Shane Tamura’s life have emerged after the Las Vegas man fatally shot four people in a New York City skyscraper before turning his gun on himself.
Dreyveon Griley-Burnside, 25, and Kaveon Phillips, 22, pleaded guilty in May, according to court documents.