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The Association of National Football League (NFLPA) players published a statement on the New York shooting on Tuesday morning, which killed four people in the league office building.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that occurred yesterday in New York. 345 Park Avenue is part of our football family, and we, to the NFLPA, extend our sincere condolences and support to the people who work in this building and to the families of those who have lost their lives,” said NFLPA.
“We also want to express our deep gratitude to the police and the emergency staff who responded to the people affected.”
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Members of the New York City Police Service Department Scene scene on the scene and enter the building with bags of evidence to collect evidence where five people were slaughtered in a mass shooting attack at 345 Park Avenue in New York on July 28, 2025. (Kyle Mazza / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday in a press conference that the shooter, identified as Shane Tamura, aimed at the League – we do not know if specific people were planned targets.
Adams said the shooter was trying to go to the NFL headquarters but had taken the bad elevator bank. Adams added that the shooter was referring to having suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and that he had a complaint against the NFL in a “suicide note”. Tamura was a high school football player in Granada Hills Charter in Granada Hills, California.
An NFL employee was “seriously injured” during the shooting, said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in a NFL employee note obtained by PK Press Club Digital.
NFLPA logo at the NFLPA press conference on February 1, 2018. (Rich Graessle / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
New York shooting: What to know about Shane Tamura, shooter who killed 4, including the NYPD COP in the center of Manhattan
The employee works in the finance department and was on the phone with colleagues when the shooting occurred and told people on the phone to stay safe, athletics reported. He would have continued to make telephone calls in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
An officer of the NYPD was killed during the shooting, and the shooter was found dead on the 33rd floor, where he also killed another woman, of a self-inflicted ball injury.
New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tamura had history problems.
The transfer worthy of the deceased police officer of the NYPD Didarul Islam takes place at the New York Presbyterian Well Cornell Medical Center after midnight after the mass attack that killed him and three others while injuring a fifth person in Manhattan, New York, July 29, 2025. (Kyle Mazza / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Tisch said Tamura had traveled the cross-country, her vehicle being seen for the last time in Columbia, New Jersey, as recently as 4:24 p.m.. It was not long before he was unleashed a shots dam in the high -rise building.
