{"id":30898,"date":"2025-07-29T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30898\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:26:10","slug":"nfl-community-reacts-with-sadness-to-the-shooting-at-the-league-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30898\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL community reacts with sadness to the shooting at the league office"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Coaches and players around the NFL expressed their sadness and condolences on Tuesday after a gunman killed four people at the league\u2019s Manhattan office<\/a> a day earlier.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the gunman was attempting to reach the league\u2019s part of the building<\/a> but took the wrong elevator. An NFL employee was among those wounded, according to Commissioner Roger Goodell.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust want to start out addressing the senseless violence that happened in New York,\u201d Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris said. \u201cJust send our thoughts and prayers to everybody involved, including one of our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid said his and his staff\u2019s thoughts go out to the people affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people at the league office that had to go through all that,\u201d Reid said. \u201cIt\u2019s a bad deal. We\u2019ve got to try to keep peace somewhere here. There\u2019s too much of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goodell said in a memo to staff that a league employee was seriously injured in the attack and was hospitalized in stable condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply grateful to the law enforcement officers who responded to this threat quickly and decisively and to Officer Islam, who gave his life to protect others,\u201d said Goodell, referring to Didarul Islam, an off-duty police officer working a corporate security detail who was killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

Goodell praised the swift law enforcement response and honored Islam. NFL employees in New York were instructed to work remotely Tuesday or take the day off, he said, and additional security will be in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery one of you is a valued member of the NFL family,\u201d Goodell said. \u201cWe will get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson said the shooting \u201ckeeps things in perspective as we enter training camp and the guys are going hard that there\u2019s a little bit more to life than just football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigators believe Shane Tamura, of Las Vegas, was trying to get to the NFL offices after shooting several people<\/a> Monday in the building\u2019s lobby but accidentally entered the wrong set of elevator banks, Adams said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always tough to hear things like that and really to try to stay focused,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cYou have to because you have a job to do, but you think about the families that go through that and it\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Tamura played high school football in California a decade ago but never in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Daboll said he had not had any conversations with players or staff about the situation or if they were concerned for their safety. Kicker Graham Gano, the Giants\u2019 union representative, watched coverage of the shooting at the practice facility late Monday, learned of the connection to the league early Tuesday and did not express any worry about he and his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur security staff here is fantastic,\u201d Gano said. \u201cIt\u2019s sad to see no matter who it is, league office or not. It\u2019s definitely really sad, but I think we\u2019re fully confident in our security team here.<\/p>\n

Three-time Tennessee Titans Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons saw reports of the shooting Tuesday morning. With an 8 a.m. local time practice, he didn\u2019t have the chance to read up on the attack, but Simmons said that\u2019s why mental health is one of the things brought up in football circles these days.<\/p>\n

\u201cMental health is a big thing in this world, and it\u2019s our job, especially in this building,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cOne thing we talked about as the leaders you never know when a guy\u2019s last day may be in this building or he could be on this team forever. So, I just want to treat everybody the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleveland Browns owner Dee Haslam expressed her sympathies to the victims of the \u201chorrendous acts\u201d in New York during her opening remarks at training camp on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be remiss if we didn\u2019t start out acknowledging what happened yesterday at the NFL headquarters,\u201d Haslam said, flanked by her husband, Jimmy. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with all the families that have lost their loved ones and we honor the policeman that also died in the line of duty, and our prayers are with the ones that are injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP Pro Football Writers Rob Maaddi in Tampa, Florida, Dennis Waszak in Florham Park, New Jersey, and Teresa M. Walker in Nashville, Tennessee; AP Sports Writers Stephen Whyno in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Charles Odum in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and Dave Skretta in St. Joseph, Missouri; and AP freelance writer Tom Withers in Berea, Ohio, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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