The NFL has elevated safety at its places of work following a taking pictures final month at a Manhattan constructing by a gunman authorities say was focusing on league headquarters.
“We are working with the building and the other tenants within the building on building security,” NFL govt Jeff Miller mentioned Thursday.
The league beforehand really useful enhanced safety measures at staff and league amenities. The suggestions will probably be reviewed at a particular league assembly on Aug. 26.
NFL staff are again of their places of work after working remotely within the weeks following the taking pictures that killed 4 individuals and injured a league worker.
Investigators imagine Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, was making an attempt to get to the NFL places of work after taking pictures a number of individuals within the constructing’s foyer, then one other in a Thirty third-floor workplace on July 28, earlier than he killed himself, authorities mentioned.
Police mentioned Tamura had a historical past of psychological sickness, and a rambling notice discovered on his physique urged that he had a grievance towards the NFL over a declare that he suffered from continual traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative mind illness that may be recognized solely by inspecting the mind after an individual dies.
Tamura performed highschool soccer in California a decade in the past however by no means within the NFL.
