NFL employee seriously injured in deadly shooting at tower housing league's HQ
Last edited Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:15 AM - Edit history (1)
Jul 29, 2025, 01:28 AM ET
A National Football League employee was seriously injured in a shooting Monday at a midtown Manhattan building that houses the NFL's offices and some of the country's top financial firms, commissioner Roger Goodell said in a memo to employees. Four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed and another person was critically wounded in the shooting at 345 Park Ave., authorities said.
"One of our employees was seriously injured in this attack. He is currently in the hospital and in stable condition," Goodell wrote in the memo, which was obtained by ESPN. "NFL staff are at the hospital and we are supporting his family. We believe that all of our employees are otherwise safe and accounted for, and the building has nearly been cleared." Goodell said in the memo that there would be "increased security presence" at the league's offices "in the days and weeks to come." He said employees based in New York should work remotely Tuesday or could take the day off.
Police identified the gunman as Shane Tamura, of Las Vegas, and said he killed himself. He had a "documented mental health history," but the motive was still unknown, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. "We are working to understand why he targeted this particular location," Tisch said.
Tamura had a three-page note with him claiming that he suffered from CTE and asking that his brain be studied, police sources told ABC News on Tuesday. References to the NFL in that note were vague, sources told ABC. CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, can only be diagnosed through a brain autopsy. It is a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45848952/nfl-employee-seriously-injured-deadly-shooting-tower-housing-league-hq
Tamura was a standout high school football player.
NYC gunman Shane Tamura referenced ex-NFL player Terry Long — who had CTE — in note slamming league
Edit: The NFL employee was shot at random in the lobby- Tamura never got to the floor that the NFL is on. Tamura never played in the NFL or in college football - only in high school. I'm not sure whether high school football players and their parents are warned about the risk of CTE, but NFL players certainly are warned.