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I am suspicious of the "targeting NFL" claim.

He went to the 33rd floor in the building and killed a Blackstone CEO, Wesley LePatner, "Global Head of Core+ Real Estate and the Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT)" along with the other victims.

I have seen little to no mainstream coverage of this fact, which is mildy suspicious, to say the least. They may have learned from the whole Luigi coverage event and decided to not broadcast this one.

As of right now, there is nothing solidly confirming this, so it is just a conspiracy theory. Definitely within the realm of possibility though.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-shooting-photo-furniture-blackstone-office-barricade-employees-shane-tamura-2025-7?op=1

https://www.blackstone.com/people/wesley-lepatner/

The most glaring example of this is the FBI’s new threat designation, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (the existence of which I first reported here). In example after example, the government so labels actions which, like Tamura’s, are of course horrifying; but even a cursory look reveals that they are hardly random or without meaning.

It’s not just the FBI. National Guard sources have told me that they were getting briefings warning about the “nihilistic violent extremist” threat amid the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, something that’s about as politically-laden with meaning as one can imagine.

The idea that tragedies like mass shootings happen for no reason at all because life is just random like that, what can ya do — now that’s nihilism.

That's incredibly fucked up and I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it.

Just complete denial that there's any cause. They'll use this constantly, because they don't want people to know others have started fighting back.

And as more and more people get to the "nothing left to lose" stage, we're going to see more of these. It's literally a natural response to rampant wealth inequality and poverty.

People with nothing to lose, act like it. And that's bad for everyone else.

A shooter travels to Manhattan planning to target corporate executives he blames for his health issues. He leaves behind a note that law enforcement won’t release and the news media is happy to quote from selectively but won't publish.

Sound familiar?

The parallels between Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old Nevada man who killed four people in a Midtown Manhattan office one week ago today, and alleged assassin Luigi Mangione are uncanny. Unlike Mangione, however, Tamura’s victims had nothing to do with his reported health issues. As a result, his rampage was framed as a random act of “senseless violence,” as President Trump declared.

But former friends of Tamura’s that I talked to say there’s more to the story: that his suicide note’s reported claim that “football gave me CTE” is plausible, given his many years as a high school football star.

The classmates, while clearly horrified by Tamura’s actions, are also able to appreciate the likelihood that there’s a public health dimension to the shooting. Wouldn’t it be nice if our elected leaders were capable of that kind of nuance? That’s certainly how I feel about it, and why I hope that the media publishes the notes he left behind: not to glorify anything but to understand what happened and how it might be prevented from happening again.

What little we know about the writing Tamura left behind reportedly includes three separate references to

• “You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squash

• “Study my brain please I’m sorry.”

• “Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused my to drink a gallon of antifreeze.”

Terry Long, who played as an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 80s and 90s, committed suicide in 2005 by drinking antifreeze. An autopsy revealed that Long had been suffering from CTE.

Is there anything to him shooting a Blackstone CEO , or was that random?

Honest question as I haven't been following this much.