NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told employees in an e-mail early Tuesday morning that one of the league employees was seriously injured in a shooting on Midtown Manhattan on Monday.
“A shooter committed an unspeakable act of violence in our building at 345 Park Avenue,” said Goodell. “The employee is in a stable state and the NFL staff are at the hospital supporting his family.”
The commissioner said the NFL thought that all other employees are safe and taken into account.
The shooting, which was reported for the first time at 6.30 p.m. Monday, was at 345 Park Avenue in New York, where several large companies are located – including Blackstone, KPMG and the NFL -.
Police said Shane Devon Tamura, 27, had led Las Vegas to New York and opened fire in the building, killing four people, including New York Police Officer Didarul Islam. The suspect is also died, police said. Tamura has worked in the Surseshoe Las Vegas surveillance service, Caesars said.
Blackstone said one of his employees, Wesley Lepatner, was killed during the shooting.
An officer of the NYPD and at least four civilians were killed during a shooting in an office skyscraper, which houses the NFL, Blackstone and KPMG, in Midtown Manhattan, Monday evening on July 28, 2025.
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At a press conference on Tuesday, New York mayor Eric Adams said that a preliminary investigation indicated that Tamura intended to go to the NFL offices but had taken the bad elevator bank.
Adams said the authorities found a note that the shooter had left that could have suggested a grievance against the NFL for an affirmation that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
The CTE is a brain injury considered linked to a repeated head trauma.
Tamura played football in high school in California but has never played in the NFL, Adams said.
Goodell told New York employees that they should work remotely on Tuesday and that it would increase safety in the building in the days and weeks to come.
He also directed employees to mourning advisers and support options.
“Each of you is a precious member of the NFL family. We are going to go through there,” said Goodell.
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Correction: This story has been updated to correct a temporal reference when Tamura played football in high school.