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The National Football League Players’ Association (NFLPA) released a statement early Tuesday morning about the New York City shooting, killing four people in the office building at the League’s headquarters.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that took place yesterday in New York City. 345 Park Avenue is part of our football family and we at the NFLPA expand our sincere condolences and support for the people working in this building and to the families of those who lost their lives,” NFLPA said.
“We will also express our deep gratitude for the law enforcement and emergency staff who were responding to those who were affected.”
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Members of the New York City Police Department Crime Scene Unit work on site and enter the building with evidence bags to collect evidence where five people were shot in a mass shooting attack of 345 Park Avenue in New York City on July 28, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday in a news briefing that it is assumed that the shooter identified as Shane Tamura was targeted at the league – it is not known whether specific people were intended goals.
Adams said the shooter was trying to get to the NFL HQ but took the wrong elevator bank. Adams added that the gunman was referring to having suffered chronically traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and that he had a complaint about the NFL in a “suicide note.” Tamura was a footballer at high school at Granada Hills Charter in Granada Hills, California.
An NFL employee was “seriously wounded” in the shooting, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a memo for NFL employees obtained by Pakinomist Digital.
NFLPA logo under the NFLPA press conference on February 1, 2018. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
NYC Shooting: What to know about Shane Tamura, gunman who killed 4 including NYPD COP in Midtown Manhattan
The employee works in the finance department and was on the phone with colleagues when the shooting took place and asked them on the phone to remain in safety, Athletic reported. He reportedly continued to make phone calls while in an ambulance on his way to the hospital.
A NYPD officer was killed in the shooting and the shooter was found dead on the 33rd floor, where he also killed another woman from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
NYC -Politics Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tamura had a history of mental health problems.
The worthy transfer of the late NYPD police officer Didarul Islam takes place at the New York Presbyterian Well Cornell Medical Center after midnight after the mass shooting attack that killed him and three others while wounding a fifth person in Manhattan, New York, July 29, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Tisch said Tamura traveled cross -country skiing, where his vehicle was last seen in Columbia, New Jersey, as late as 16.24 one. It wasn’t long before he released a barrier of firearms in the high -rise building.
