Jets head coach Aaron Glenn and Giants head coach Brian Daboll each began their press conferences Tuesday offering thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims of Monday’s NYC shooting at the Midtown building that is home to the NFL league office.
Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident, killed four people after entering 345 Park Ave. with an assault rifle around 6:30 p.m. before shooting himself in the chest.
“I wish it was a better morning,” Glenn said. “The thing that happened yesterday at the league office, man, just as an organization, our thoughts and prayers go out to all the families. It’s always tough to hear things like that and really to try to stay focused, but you have to because you have a job to do. But you think about the families that go through that and it’s tough.”
Daboll called the shooting “tragic.”
“Thoughts and prayers are with the people that were affected in that tragedy,” he said.
Tamura, who drove across the country before the rampage, killed one NYPD officer, Didarul Islam, and three civilians.
An NFL employee was wounded in the shooting.
He had an apparent suicide note that thanked a documentary on CTE brain injuries that included the names of prominent neuroscientists.
Tamura, who had “a documented mental health history,” NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday, played high school football at Granada Hills Charter High School in Los Angeles.