Shane Tamura’s supervisor at Horseshoe Las Vegas helped him purchase a key part of the weapon he used to kill four people in Manhattan before turning the gun on himself, according to a report from the New York Post.
New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 27-year-old Las Vegas resident used an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle in Monday’s shooting that he assembled using a lower receiver purchased by an associate.
Investigators with the New York Police Department traveled to Las Vegas to search Tamura’s northwest valley Desert Shores home and determine how he came to possess the weapon used in the shooting. Public records show Tamura and his family living in Las Vegas beginning in 2022.
Citing unidentified sources, the Post reported that Tamura’s boss at Horseshoe supplied the Palmetto State Armory lower receiver for the AR-15.
