Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), announced that The League Office located in New York will remain closed until August 8 after shooting that claimed the lives of four people and in which a league employee was injured.
“For those who work in our New York office, we ask them to plan to work remotely at least until the end of next week (August 8). The office will remain closed during this time and ask them to not try to enter the building until we confirm that it is ready for our return,” explained the commissioner through an email sent to the employees of the League.
Last Monday, a 27 -year -old man entered the building located in Park Aveneu, where they are, among several companies, the NFL offices, and fired his gun with what ended the lives of four people, wounded an employee of the League, already then committed suicide.
Earlier, this Tuesday, Eric Adams, mayor of New York, informed that the aggressor, named Shane Tamura, was aimed at the NFL offices, but was wrong in the elevator he had to take.
In the statement Goodell sent their condolences to the relatives of the victims and thanked the rescue services for their performance.
“Our deepest condolences to all victims and their families. Our thoughts and prayers are especially with our affected colleague.
We are deeply grateful to the lifeguards and medical staff who acted so quickly and continue to provide attention, “said Goodell.
According to the police report, the investigators recovered a note in which the shooter claimed to suffer chronic traumatic encephalopathy (etc), brain injury is caused by repeated trauma in the head that come to suffer from high performance athletes.
The information showed that the attacker had played American football in high school, but did not even reach the university category and therefore to the NFL.
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