NFL reacts to shooting at its league office

Coaches and players around the NFL expressed their sadness and condolences on Tuesday after a gunman killed four people at the league’s Manhattan office a day earlier.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the gunman was attempting to reach the league’s part of the building but took the wrong elevator. An NFL employee was among those wounded, according to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Multiple coaches, including Aaron Glenn of the New York Jets and Brian Daboll of the Giants, opened their news conferences by referencing the shooting. Glenn said he wished it were a better morning, and Daboll called it a tragic event at 345 Park Ave.

“Just want to start out addressing the senseless violence that happened in New York,” Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris said. “Just send our thoughts and prayers to everybody involved, including one of our own.”

Investigators believe Shane Tamura, of Las Vegas, was trying to get to the NFL offices after shooting several people Monday in the building’s lobby but accidentally entered the wrong set of elevator banks, Adams said.

“It’s always tough to hear things like that and really to try to stay focused,” Glenn said. “You have to because you have a job to do, but you think about the families that go through that and it’s tough.”

Police said Tamura had a history of mental illness, and a rambling note found on his body suggested that he had a grievance against the NFL over a claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that can be diagnosed only after someone has died.

Tamura played high school football in California nearly two decades ago but never in the NFL.



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