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Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead

posted by martyb on Sunday August 26 2018, @08:35PM   Printer-friendly

martyb writes:

Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville Leaves Multiple Dead:

Multiple people were killed in a mass shooting during a video game tournament at a shopping and dining complex in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Sunday afternoon. Preliminary reports say four people were killed of the 11 people who were shot at the Jacksonville Landing, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the incident.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter there were "multiple" fatalities and "many" transported to hospitals. One suspect was dead at the scene, the Sheriff's Office said, and it was not known if there was another suspect.

Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida is treating at least three patients that were involved in the gaming shooting incident, Hospital spokesman Pete Moberg tells CNN. All of the patients are in stable condition, Moberg says.

Live Updates: Shooting at Madden tournament in Jacksonville.

The shooting occurred at the Jacksonville Landing complex during a qualifying event for the Madden 19 Tournament at the GLHF Game Bar, according to the Twitter [feed] of CompLexity Gaming, one of the gaming teams.

Also at: NY Daily News and Fox News.

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  • (Score: 2) by Entropy on Monday August 27 2018, @06:26AM (4 children)

    by Entropy (4228) on Monday August 27 2018, @06:26AM (#726811)

    They are real sketchy on details but if anyone was curious(as I was) there were 2 killed. Nothing really compared to say.. Chicago.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @10:01AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @10:01AM (#726834)

    3 dead if you include the shooter, but yeah. If this didn’t feed an agenda it would be at most state news - not fucking (inter)national news.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 27 2018, @07:27PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday August 27 2018, @07:27PM (#727094) Journal

      Weekends and especially Sundays are slow new days for most media outlets, so this filled a void alongside the death of John McCain. The details of the incident also helped boost its profile. He killed apparently due to his poor performance in a video game tournament. A number of people (seems like at least hundreds based on the speed of the chat, but I have not found the number) were watching the Twitch live stream of the tournament when the shooting started. Jacksonville police warned people to stay away from the area for a while. TV news immediately had the chilling video/audio of the shooting, in a form that did not need much editing since the stream had cut back to Madden '19. Most shooting incidents aren't going to have such convenient footage available so quickly.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 27 2018, @07:13PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday August 27 2018, @07:13PM (#727086) Journal

    Initial reports said 4 (probably including himself).

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  • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:09AM

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:09AM (#727297)

    Suspect is a Madden '19 player, not a Call of Duty 360 no-scoper.