New York Jets owner Woody Johnson will be recognized at Tunnel to Towers’ annual gala later this year, as the foundation celebrates his 10-year commitment to its mission.

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, established in 2001 in support of 9/11 first responders, military veterans, and their families, is widely known for building mortgage-free smart homes for severely injured service members and providing housing assistance for homeless veterans.

Johnson’s longtime charitable work with Tunnel to Towers dates back to 2014, when he contributed $1 million to the organization’s Building for America’s Bravest initiative.

Most recently, Johnson joined Tunnel to Towers last month to present Command Sergeant Major William “Bud” McElroy with a new mortgage-free smart home, delivering a life-changing surprise to the veteran.

“Tunnel to Towers’ extraordinary work is a constant reminder of the importance of honoring the memory of the heroes who demonstrated courage and made the ultimate sacrifice for this country,” Johnson told Fox News Digital. “Over the past two decades they have channeled grief into action, and it’s a privilege to be recognized by such an honorable group.”

“Woody Johnson has been standing with our families for more than a decade, and he’s never once asked for anything in return,” Tunnel to Towers Chairman and CEO Frank Siller said in a statement. “Because of Woody, his family, and the Betty Wood Johnson Foundation, six catastrophically injured veterans are living in specially adapted smart homes today, and first responder families across this country are keeping their homes.”

“My brother Stephen ran toward people who needed him without asking what it would cost him — Woody has been doing the same thing for twelve years. There’s no one more deserving of the Follow the Footsteps Award, which we will be presenting to him at our gala in December,” Siller added.

The gala honoring Johnson will take place in December.

Johnson previously served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom during the first Trump administration and is a founding trustee of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.

Seattle’s interim police chief described known gun violence suspects as “trigger pullers” during a Labor Day weekend news briefing, as he addressed three separate shootings and outlined how the Seattle Police Department is responding.

The shootings unfolded within a 24-hour period, leaving three people dead and three others wounded, FOX 13 Seattle reported.

Interim Chief Andre Sayles said Seattle police are stepping up patrols, working closely with local business owners and using the department’s community response group and gun violence reduction unit in an effort to prevent further violence.

“We’re looking at ways to where we can identify individuals that are known, we call trigger pullers, in our community,” Sayles said during a Sept. 7 briefing. “Identifying them, making sure that we’re putting cases on those individuals working with King County Prosecutor’s Office, to bring these individuals to justice, because the families that lost loved ones, throughout the year and years past, deserve justice.”

The term drew pushback from local commentators who said it softened the description of violent suspects.

“So in Seattle we aren’t calling them ‘shooters’ anymore? Now they are ‘trigger pullers’?” local radio host Ari Hoffman posted on social media following Sayles’ remarks.

The phrase is not new to law enforcement. In 2022, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray used the term during remarks to the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies.

“You all know what’s driving the violent crime in your states,” Wray said. “Whether it’s a community where a disproportionate amount of gun violence takes place or rival gangs wreaking havoc in a particular region or a handful of well-known trigger pullers who keep finding their way back to the streets, no matter how many times they’re arrested, at the FBI, we want to be your integral partner in the fight against violent crime.”

Sayles said investigators did not believe the three shootings were connected and that none appeared to be linked to the deadly July shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival.

The first shooting occurred early Sunday near Denny Way and Clay Street, where a fight following a street takeover escalated into gunfire, killing a 20-year-old man and injuring two others, FOX 13 Seattle reported.

About an hour later, a gunman fired multiple shots into a vehicle near Third Avenue and Blanchard Street, fatally wounding a 23-year-old woman.

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Before midnight, a third altercation near Elliott Avenue and Bell Street left a 17-year-old dead and a 21-year-old seriously injured. Investigators did not immediately identify a clear gang connection in that case.

No arrests had been made in the three shootings when Sayles spoke with reporters. He said investigators were working with witnesses and reviewing surveillance footage, including about 450 hours of video in one case.

Sayles also acknowledged questions about whether police resources had been strained by the shootings and a series of street takeovers over the weekend.

“That’s something I have to look at. I haven’t really dove into what the staffing numbers looked like,” Sayles said. “And if that was the case, then we will do what we need to do as a department to make sure that they are not overwhelmed.”

Sayles said the department’s intelligence unit was working to identify where street takeovers were being organized and that officers would coordinate with regional, local and federal partners.

“We have officers in these dedicated areas,” he said. “They’re a block or two away, and it’s one of those incidents where we respond to violence on a daily basis. It’s not like we can be there and stop it, but our goal is to be there and stop it.”

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson offered condolences to the victims’ families during a public appearance, FOX 13 Seattle reported.

“This weekend, we’ve seen three people die, which is incredibly tragic, and my heart goes out to the victims and their families,” Wilson said.

Seattle police told the station the department was seeking tips, photos and videos from the shooting scenes that could help lead to arrests. Investigators continue to pursue leads in all three cases.

News Media has reached out to the Seattle Police Department and the mayor’s office for additional comment.

A Wisconsin mother was allegedly stabbed multiple times by her daughter during a violent confrontation in the parking lot of a Chick-fil-A, authorities said.

Police said Kimberly King, 39, was attacked with a knife after a tense dispute with 21-year-old Shyanniah Ma’ree Johnson escalated.

The argument reportedly began last month as the pair were traveling from Florida back to Milwaukee with King’s young son and her grandson in the vehicle.

King said she pulled into a Chick-fil-A parking lot in Acworth, Georgia, after sensing that her daughter appeared ready to strike her.

‘She put my hair down and just started just stabbing me. She stabbed me multiple times. She stabbed me all over my head, my arms, my shoulders,’ King told Fox 5.

Johnson reportedly stabbed her mother around 10 times. Deputies said the mother ran inside the fast food restaurant after the stabbing where officers already inside the premises were able to call an ambulance.

Johnson was taken to jail but subsequently released by Cherokee County judge, Shannon Wallace on a $3,000 bond. 

King told Fox 5 her daughter’s release has left her fearful, she said: ‘I do not feel safe. I’m upset they let her out.’

King was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital the sheriff’s office said in a news release. 

Johnson, who obtained a leg injury during the fight, allegedly drove away with the two children still inside the car.

Officers later located the car in Whitfield County and took Johnson to Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, before she was moved to jail.

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Court records show that she was charged with aggravated assault and two counts of third-degree cruelty to children. 

King is a manicurist and said on a GoFundMe she set up that the attack has left her hands paralyzed.

‘My hands were my career, my independence, and the way I cared for my children. In minutes, all of that was taken,’ she said.

King claims that she needs assistance bathing, preparing food, getting dressed and ‘caring for my three-year-old son.’ 

King also wrote that her own mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and stabbed her grandmother when King was six years old.

‘My daughter has not been diagnosed with any condition, and I am not claiming she has one,’ King writes. 

‘But she and my mother shared behaviors that, in hindsight, were warnings I didn’t know how to interpret.’ 

The two children are in the custody of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services in Whitfield County.

 A lawyer for Johnson declined to comment.

The Daily Mail contacted Judge Wallace, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and King for comment. 

Dave Roberts’ late-night media session Tuesday ended on a familiar note, one that has become increasingly common around the Dodgers in recent weeks.

The Los Angeles manager was again asked about Shohei Ohtani’s condition, and then about whether the two-way superstar would be ready to return to the lineup the following day.

“He’ll be in the lineup tomorrow,” Roberts said, offering reassurance after noting that Ohtani had been available as a pinch-hitting option during the Dodgers’ 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Still, the larger concern is not the answer itself. It is the fact that the Dodgers are being forced to address Ohtani’s status almost every day.

What once looked like a season bursting with possibility has turned into a tense final stretch, with Ohtani pushing forward while lingering health questions continue to hang over the Dodgers’ playoff chase.

Before Tuesday’s game, Roberts took time to reflect on Ohtani’s 2026 season –– and how the 32-year-old unicorn went from chasing Cy Young and MVP honors to playing through left knee and right arm injuries that have severely limited his one-of-a-kind skill set.

Roberts said he and the club had “learned” important lessons from the experience. He recognized “that sometimes potentially trying to get ahead of managing [Ohtani’s] workload” was a difficult, delicate task.

Yet, he was careful not to second-guess the way Ohtani had been handled during his first full two-way season with the club (or, what was supposed to be, anyway).

He echoed the same sentiments Ohtani himself had shared the night before, expressing no regrets about the superstar’s usage even in light of the predicament the player and team now find themselves in.

“Obviously, probably, you can say a lot [if you] look back,” Roberts said. “Anyone can do that, and say, ‘What could you have done better or different?’ Absolutely. That’s something going forward we’re gonna look at. But it’s certainly not a blame game thing.”

Such revisionist history dates back to mid-June, when Ohtani first developed his knee problem but initially attempted to try pitching through it. There were then his repeatedly failed efforts to ramp up on the mound, even after he had been removed from the Dodgers rotation in early July following the flare-up of his right biceps.

Granted, for most of the summer the problems didn’t seem to hamper Ohtani at the plate.

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But then last month, his offense began to decline as he took on a heavier workload in his ultimately aborted pitching progression.

Two weeks ago, his expected return to the mound was scuttled after he felt lingering issues in a bullpen session, leading the team to finally pull the plug on his long-awaited return to pitching.

At the plate, meanwhile, he slipped into a 6-for-46 slump as a hitter, culminating in a four-strikeout performance last week in which he finally showed some visible pain with his swing, prompting the club to give him four days off afterward.

“It’s, I guess, under the thing of, ‘you don’t know until you know,’ and it’s important to kind of learn from experiences,” Roberts said Tuesday, now that only now do the Dodgers have the benefit of hindsight.

One big lesson: Though Roberts said “it always feels good to run him out there offensively as a DH, always feels good when you pencil him in as a starter,” he highlighted the importance of “just really trying to be mindful” of the toll Ohtani’s body takes over the course of a two-way campaign.

“It’s good for all of us to kind of appreciate that he’s not supernatural,” he added, “as much as we think he might be at times.”

Though Roberts said the club hasn’t discussed plans for next year with Ohtani yet, they still envision him attempting a two-way role again.

In the meantime, they’re hopeful their renewed plan to carefully manage his late-season workload will help him get back on track with his swing in time for October.

“I think that a day here or there is not the worst thing, to make sure that his body overall feels as close to 100% as possible,” Roberts said.

Still, this isn’t the place Ohtani or the team hoped he would be at this stage of the year –– even if, as Ohtani noted Monday, they have at least avoided a worst-case scenario “where I couldn’t play as a hitter.”

“It’s learning from what happened and getting better,” Roberts said.

For now, in the wake of Ohtani’s failed two-way season, that’s the best he and the Dodgers can do.