Who is the NFL employee shot in NYC mass shooting? What we know so far.
The building was 345 Park Avenue, where NFL headquarters are located among other businesses. And it turns out that among the shooting victims was a league employee who was injured by the gunman, whose name was Shane Tamura.
Who was it? What do we know about all of this? Here's everything we know so far as this story continues to develop:
Who was the NFL employee who was shot by Shane Tamura?
The person has not been named. But in a memo from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that was sent, the person was "seriously injured" and is "currently in the hospital and in stable condition." He added that NFL staffers are at the hospital.
What else did Roger Goodell say about the Shane Tamura shooting?
Here's the entire memo:
Was Shane Tamura targeting the NFL specifically?
Per CNN:
Papers found on the shooter's body indicate he had grievances with the National Football League and its handling of CTE, a brain disease linked to head trauma, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN.
What is CTE?
As USA TODAY Sports wrote in 2022:
CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive degenerative brain disease, according to Boston University's CTE Research Center, which has led much of the research on the disease. The condition is caused by a history of repeated hits to the head and emerges months or even years after the head injuries were sustained, according to Boston University.
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