“My son was shot 3 times,” tweeted Sujeil Lopez. The bullet hit my thumb.”įellow competitor Timothy “Olarry” Anselimo was also among the injured, according to his mother. Im leavinng and never coming back,” tweeted competitor Drini Gjoka. Officials have not identified any of the victims by name - though at least two were reportedly gamers. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Trueboy or his opponent, Wesley “Joe Rice” Gittens, were among the injured. “Oh f–k! What did he shoot me with?” one victim can be heard yelling in between shots. Seconds later, the first of 12 shots rings out as screams fill the background and a player’s controller abruptly disconnects. The reigning Madden NFL 18 Bowl champ had turned on the tournament's Twitch stream and heard, along with everyone else who had tuned in, the gunshots and screams. The beam can first be seen on the table in front of Clayton, then his chest, and finally his neck before the camera feed on the players cuts out. Jacksonville shooting suspect specifically targeted fellow Madden gamers Court documents state that Katz suffered emotionally as a child and was prescribed psychiatric drugs, including Lexapro. Two people were killed and at least nine more injured, reported, citing sources.Ī video posted to Youtube of one of the tournament’s games captured the sights and sounds of the terrifying attack, which a player told the Los Angeles times was carried out by a man who had lost in the competition.Ībout 15 seconds into the minute-long clip, an apparent red-laser dot can be seen inching its way toward gamer Eli “Trueboy” Clayton. “Multiple fatalities at the scene, many transported ,” the office wrote in a second tweet about 30 minutes later. “Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Twitter at 2:13 p.m. According to local TV’s News4Jax, he shot himself.Įmergency responders shut down the streets around Jacksonville Landing, where the Madden 19 Tournament was being held at the GLHF Game Bar, and urged people to steer clear of the area. The suspect is dead, the city’s sheriff’s office said. Police said the suspected shooter was David Katz, a 24-year-old video game competitor from Baltimore, who opened fire at The Landing shopping center in Jacksonville, where players competed in EA. After he lost, he left the grounds, only to return armed with two guns. The shooting happened at the GLHF Game Bar at the Jacksonville Landing mall, which was hosting a two-day Madden NFL 19 tournament organized by gaming giant Electronic Arts. Two people were killed by a disgruntled gamer at a Madden football video tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday afternoon - with terrifying camera footage capturing what appears to be a red-laser dot creeping up a player’s torso and audio of the gunshots, according to reports. 26, David Katz competed in a Madden tournament in the game room of a Florida pizza parlor. IOC: Esports has no Olympic future until 'violence' removedįuneral set for West Virginia victim of Madden shooting Parkland survivor hosts fundraiser for Madden shooting victims Madden tournament shooting survivor dies in car wreck
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