On Thursday, a shooting in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette left five of the newspaper's journalists dead.
Bill Belichick, who grew up in Annapolis where the incident took place, released a statement on the tragedy:
"My family and I have enjoyed special relationships with many great people who have worked for the newspaper," Belichick said in the statement posted to the Patriots Twitter account Friday night. "My heart goes out to the victims, their families and the entire Annapolis community for this terrible and senseless tragedy."