LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has released body-worn camera footage and 911 recordings showing multiple encounters with Shane Tamura, the man who police said killed four people before taking his own life at a Manhattan office building in July.
One video shows a Sept. 27, 2023, incident in which Tamura was escorted out of Red Rock Casino Resort after he was unable to cash out his winnings at the casino cage. A caller from the casino contacted dispatchers, saying Tamura was irate and refusing to leave, adding that he was “making a spectacle of himself.”
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“I didn’t want to call 911, but it’s getting to the point that I think I should have,” the caller said. “He’s on something.”
“But you’re not sure if it might be alcohol-induced?” the dispatcher asked.
“I’m sure it’s alcohol,” the caller replied.
Tamura then called law enforcement, telling dispatchers that the casino “stole his money.”
“I’m at the Red Rock Casino, and the casino is refusing to cash me out,” Tamura said. “Can you call gaming and get them to Red Rock Casino?”
The dispatcher asked why they were refusing to cash him out, and Tamura reiterated several times that they “stole his money.”
“They stole my money, they stole like $6,000 from me, and they’re not cashing me out,” Tamura said. “They stole my money.”
A 43-minute body-worn camera clip shows Tamura later in police custody at the casino. He repeatedly asks to “see his chips” before being escorted outside the casino in handcuffs. Once outside, officers removed the restraints, but Tamura refused to leave, repeatedly asking how he was going to cash out.
“Dude, that’s five grand,” Tamura said. “How am I going to make rent?”
Tamura was placed in handcuffs again after refusing to leave.
Other clips from September 2022 and August 2024 depict occasions when Tamura’s mother called law enforcement because he threatened self-harm. During those calls, she told police Tamura had a gun. Police were told he was under a doctor’s care for depression, sports concussions, chronic migraines and insomnia. His mother also told police he smoked marijuana.
During another call, she told a dispatcher he suffered from bipolar depression and anxiety. She said Tamura used to have a concealed carry firearm permit, but it had expired. She also said he had pawned his gun.
Police say Tamura killed four people before taking his own life at a Manhattan office building on July 28. Investigators are looking into whether Tamura believed he had a brain condition linked to contact sports and harbored resentment toward the NFL, which is housed in the building where Tamura opened fire.
Police said Tamura was found with a “rambling note” that claimed he had been suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to concussions.
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