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An employee of the NFL, whose headquarters are in the New York City building targeted in a deadly shooting Monday, was \u201cseriously injured\u201d in the attack, league commissioner Roger Goodell said in a staff memo.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs has been widely reported, a gunman committed an unspeakable act of violence in our building at 345 Park Avenue. One of our employees was seriously injured in this attack,\u201d Goodell wrote in the memo, per ESPN<\/a>. \u201cHe is currently in the hospital and in stable condition. NFL staff are at the hospital and we are supporting his family.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/p>\n Goodell did not identify the NFL employee who was injured. The NFL believes that \u201call of our employees are otherwise safe and accounted for, and the building has nearly been cleared,\u201d the commissioner wrote in the memo, sent early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n According to the AP<\/a>, authorities identified the attacker as Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, had a \u201cdocumented mental health history,\u201d according to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. His motive remained unknown.<\/p>\n Four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed in the incident and another person was critically wounded in the Midtown Manhattan shooting, authorities said. According to surveillance video, the shooter exited a BMW parked outside the building just before 6:30 p.m. Monday carrying an M4 rifle, per the AP. The attacked then entered the building\u2019s lobby and shot and killed the NYPD officer, who was working a corporate security detail at the location, and then shot a woman who tried to take cover as he sprayed the lobby with gunfire, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n Other businesses with offices located in the building included private equity firm Blackstone, KPMG and real estate\u00a0management and development firm\u00a0Rudin Management.<\/p>\n Goodell, in the memo, said the NFL is \u201cdeeply 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 He also wrote that there will be \u201can increased security presence at 345 Park Avenue in the days and weeks to come.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee of the NFL, whose headquarters are in the New York City building targeted in a deadly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[24458,49,48,24459,167,514,24178,82],"class_list":["post-31757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-345-park-avenue","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-new-york-city","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}