Shane Tamura is not the first former football player to shoot himself in the chest and request that his brain be examined.

The brain disease has most commonly been found in athletes in contact sports and others with a history of repeated brain ...

The suspected New York City shooter Shane Tamura believed he was suffering from CTE, a degenerative brain injury that can ...

Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old shooter who fatally shot himself, was a former standout high school football player who claimed ...

New York City’s deadliest mass shooting in 25 years appears to have been carried out Monday by a former high school running back who seemed to have been targeting the corporate headquarters of the ...

To date, nearly 350 former NFL players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their death.

CTE is a degenerative brain condition that results from repeated head injuries. The NFL's link to it might have played a role in fatal NYC shooting.