NYC shooter was targeting NFL HQ, mayor says

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that a gunman who killed 4 radical astatine a Manhattan bureau gathering was trying to people the office of the NFL but took the incorrect elevator.

Investigators judge Shane Tamura was trying to get to the NFL offices aft shooting respective radical successful the building's lobby but accidentally entered the incorrect acceptable of elevator banks, Adams said successful interviews connected Tuesday.

Four people, including an off-duty New York City constabulary officer, were killed. Police said Tamura had a past of intelligence illness, and a rambling enactment recovered connected his assemblage suggested helium had a grievance against the NFL implicit an unsubstantiated assertion that helium suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He had played shot successful precocious schoolhouse successful California astir 2 decades ago.

"He seemed to person blamed the NFL," Adams said. "The NFL office was located successful the building, and helium mistakenly went up the incorrect elevator bank."

The enactment claimed helium had been suffering from CTE -- the degenerative encephalon illness that has been linked to concussions and different repeated caput trauma communal successful interaction sports similar shot -- and said his encephalon should beryllium studied aft helium died, a idiosyncratic acquainted with the substance told The Associated Press.

It besides specifically referenced the NFL, the idiosyncratic told the AP.

The shooting took spot astatine a skyscraper that is location to the office of some the NFL and Blackstone, 1 of the world's largest concern firms, arsenic good arsenic different tenants.

A connection sent to Blackstone employees, and obtained by The Associated Press, said a unit subordinate astatine the backstage equity steadfast was killed successful Monday's shooting, but their individuality was not instantly released.

An worker of the NFL was seriously injured successful the shooting and was hospitalized successful unchangeable information arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday morning, league commissioner Roger Goodell said successful a memo to employees.

"One of our employees was earnestly injured successful this attack. He is presently successful the infirmary and successful unchangeable condition," Goodell wrote successful the memo, which was obtained by ESPN. "NFL unit are astatine the infirmary and we are supporting his family. We judge that each of our employees are different harmless and accounted for, and the gathering has astir been cleared."

Goodell added successful the memo that determination would beryllium "increased information presence" astatine the league's offices "in the days and weeks to come." He said employees based successful New York should enactment remotely Tuesday oregon could instrumentality the time off.

"Every 1 of you is simply a valued subordinate of the NFL family," Goodell wrote. "We volition get done this together."

Surveillance video showed Tamura exiting a double-parked BMW conscionable earlier 6:30 p.m. carrying an M4 rifle, past marching crossed a nationalist plaza into the building. Then, helium started firing, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said, sidesplitting a constabulary serviceman moving a firm information item and past hitting a pistillate who tried to instrumentality screen arsenic helium sprayed the lobby with gunfire.

The antheral past made his mode to the elevator slope and changeable a defender astatine a information table and changeable different antheral successful the lobby, the commissioner said.

"Our officer, helium was slain successful the entryway to the close arsenic soon arsenic helium entered the building, the fishy entered the building," Adams said successful a TV interview. "He appeared to person archetypal walked past the serviceman and past helium turned to his right, and saw him and discharged respective rounds."

NFL employees were told to structure successful spot astatine the time, according to ESPN's Jeff Darlington. The NFL offices are connected floors 5 done 8 of the 44-story building.

The antheral took the elevator to the 33rd level offices of the institution that owned the building, Rudin Management, and changeable and killed 1 idiosyncratic connected that floor. The antheral past changeable himself, the commissioner said. The building, 345 Park Avenue, besides holds offices of the fiscal services steadfast KPMG.

The serviceman killed was Didarul Islam, 36, an migrant from Bangladesh who had served arsenic a constabulary serviceman successful New York City for 3 1/2 years, Tisch said astatine a quality conference.

"He was doing the occupation that we asked him to do. He enactment himself successful harm's way. He made the eventual sacrifice," Tisch said. "He died arsenic helium lived. A hero."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.