NFL Neighborhood Reacts to Capturing on the League Workplace That Killed 4 Folks

Members of the soccer neighborhood started reacting Tuesday to the taking pictures on the NFL’s Manhattan workplace that killed 4 folks after New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams stated the gunman was trying to achieve the league’s a part of the constructing however took the incorrect elevator.

A few coaches, Brian Daboll of the New York Giants and Raheem Morris of the Atlanta Falcons, opened their remarks by referencing the taking pictures.

“You all noticed what occurred there at 345 Park — tragic,” Daboll stated, referring to the handle of the NFL workplace.

Daboll stated he had not had any conversations with gamers or workers concerning the scenario or in the event that they have been involved for his or her security.

“Simply need to begin out addressing the mindless violence that occurred in New York,” Morris stated. “Simply ship our ideas and prayers to everyone concerned, together with one in every of our personal.”

Commissioner Roger Goodell stated in a memo to workers that an NFL worker was severely injured within the assault and was hospitalized in secure situation.

“We’re deeply grateful to the regulation enforcement officers who responded to this menace rapidly and decisively and to Officer Islam, who gave his life to guard others,” Goodell stated.

Goodell praised the swift regulation enforcement response and honored the NYPD officer who was killed within the assault. Staff in New York have been instructed to work remotely Tuesday or take the time without work, he stated, and extra safety will likely be in place.

“Each one in every of you is a valued member of the NFL household,” Goodell stated. “We are going to get by means of this collectively.”

Investigators consider Shane Tamura, of Las Vegas, was making an attempt to get to the NFL workplaces after taking pictures a number of folks Monday within the constructing’s foyer however by chance entered the incorrect set of elevator banks, Adams stated in interviews.

4 folks, together with off-duty New York Metropolis Police Officer Didarul Islam, have been killed. Police stated Tamura had a historical past of psychological sickness, and a rambling word discovered on his physique recommended that he had a grievance towards the NFL over a declare that he suffered from persistent traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative mind illness that may solely be identified after somebody has died.

Tamura performed highschool soccer in California almost twenty years in the past however by no means within the NFL.

Reporting by The Related Press.