Gunman in NYC mass shooting wanted to target the NFL office, took the wrong elevator

The gun man like opened fire in an office building in Manhattan On Monday afternoon, four people killed and injured several others, aimed at the National Football League office but took the wrong elevator.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams shared the update on the investigation of Monday’s shooting in a television interview with Pix 11says the gunman, Shane Devon TamuraWanted to target the NFL office but instead ended on the 33rd floor, where offices for Rudin Management, a real estate company, are.

Tamura, a former football player in high school, claimed in a suicide report that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – the heart disease linked to contact sports – and blamed the NFL.

“Terry Long Football gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a gallon of frostbite,” Tamura wrote and referred to a former NFL player who died of suicide by drinking antifreeze. “You can’t go towards the NFL, they will crush you.”

“Study my brain please,” read Tamura’s note. “I’m sorry.”

The gunman arrived at the skyscraper around 18:30 local time, parked his BMW and went out and wore an M4 rifle. He then walked across the square in front of the building with the rifle, went into the lobby and started shooting. The gunman hit an off-service police and a woman who tried to duck and cover, before he then shot a security guard and another man as he walked against the lifts.

The authorities said that the man took the elevator to the 33rd floor, which contained offices for the company that owned the building, Rudin Management, where the gun man then shot and killed another person before turning the gun on himself.

NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that the official killed in Skytte was Didarul Islam, a 36-year-old Bangladesh’s immigrant who worked for the police department for three and a half years, people earlier reported. “He did the job we asked him to do. He put himself in injury. He did the ultimate sacrifice,” Tisch said. “He died when he was alive. A hero.”

Blackstone, one of the world’s largest securities companies, also had offices in the skyscraper and said one of its employees, Wesley Lepatnerwas killed in shooting.

“Words cannot express the devastation we feel,” the company said in a statement to people. “Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be very missed. She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous and deeply respected within our company and thereafter.”

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released a memo who informed league employees that one of their colleagues had been “seriously injured” in shooting, ESPN reported Early Tuesday morning.

“One of our employees was seriously injured in this attack. He is currently in the hospital and in stable condition,” Goodell wrote reportedly in Memo, according to ESPN. “NFL staff are in the hospital and we support his family. We believe that all our employees are otherwise safe and reported, and the building has almost been cleared.”

Goodell said the league would carry out a “increased security presence” in their offices “in the coming days and weeks.”

“We will come through this together,” Goodell said.