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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.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday August 26 2018, @11:01PM (5 children)
What I don't get even after reading the various news clips, I might have missed something. Was it related to the game tournament or did it just happen to be a shooting at a place that they also held a game tournament at? Such as was someone mad about losing a game or really wanting to get rid of some competition or was it just crazy gun thugs doing crazy thug shit and nerdy gamers just getting caught in the crossfire?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @11:12PM
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 26 2018, @11:50PM (1 child)
It is well known that games make people murderous, no matter if the games are violent or not
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday August 27 2018, @12:09AM
This could make someone murderous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvO8tntjIs [youtube.com]
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Mykl on Monday August 27 2018, @02:04AM (1 child)
It was apparently a competitor in the tournament (Madden '19), who got upset when he lost.
I will admit to feeling shocked when I first heard the news but, upon hearing it was a Madden player, thinking "Well, if there was going to be one subset of the community that would do this, the sports game players would be the most likely".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @09:54PM
He turned out to be a Trump hater.
The story always disappears quickly when it doesn't fit the narrative. The ideal would be a white male Trump supporter, proudly part of the NRA, with an AR-15. Somebody like that actually stopped the Texas church massacre, running out barefoot to return fire, and all of a sudden the story is no longer interesting. The shooting at YouTube also made the news... until it was discovered that the shooter was a vegan Muslim immigrant lady. Oh dear, bury that one ASAP!!!