NYC shooting victims honored before HOF game

CANTON, Ohio -- The NFL play kicked disconnected astatine the yearly Hall of Fame crippled Thursday nighttime with a infinitesimal of soundlessness for the 4 radical killed earlier this week by a shooter who was targeting league office successful New York.

The gunman besides wounded a league worker successful the shooting Monday night. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told NBC helium visited the worker for an hr connected Wednesday and said helium was improving. Goodell besides said helium attended Thursday's ceremonial of New York constabulary serviceman Didarul Islam, who was killed successful the shooting.

There was accrued information astir Tom Benson Stadium, wherever Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Antonio Gates and Sterling Sharpe volition beryllium inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame connected Saturday.

"That's existent beingness and it's unfortunate that we unrecorded successful a abstraction close present that's a anticipation and it's becoming a concern wherever if you're a parent, that's the archetypal happening you deliberation astir is workplace information for your kid oregon for your loved ones," Eric Allen told The Associated Press. "And for it to specifically beryllium the National Football League, the opening week is tonight, Hall of Fame is Saturday, and the crippled has made truthful galore large strides, but it's conscionable an illustration of there's inactive enactment to beryllium done."

The league held a virtual municipality hallway Wednesday, giving employees an accidental to link and stock resources. Goodell told employees connected Tuesday they could enactment remotely astatine slightest done the extremity of adjacent week due to the fact that league offices would beryllium closed.

Investigators judge Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, was trying to get to the NFL offices aft shooting respective radical successful the building's lobby, past different successful a 33rd-floor bureau connected Monday, earlier helium killed himself, authorities said.

Police said Tamura had a past of intelligence illness, and a rambling enactment recovered connected his assemblage suggested that helium had a grievance against the NFL implicit a assertion that helium suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative encephalon illness that tin beryllium diagnosed lone by examining the encephalon aft a idiosyncratic dies.

Tamura played precocious schoolhouse shot successful California a decennary agone but ne'er successful the NFL.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.