USA Gaming Tournament Shooting: Multiple Fatalities
27 August – Latest Update:
According to the latest reports, two gamers were killed in this shooting incident. Officially, their names have not been announced, however, people have paid their tribute to them on social media.
it’s not much but I just wanted to make this avi for anyone that wants to use it in memorial of these two. I remember when we use to chance our avis to show support for players. thoughts and prayers are with their families. rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/5t8LAguPy0
— chasedel (@ChaseDel) August 26, 2018
Several individuals have been executed in a shooting at an entertainment complex in Jacksonville, Florida.
According to the local sheriff’s office, the speculated shooter, a white male, was dead at the scene and no different suspects were being looked for. An unspecified number of individuals were likewise injured in the episode.
Police lockdown area after mass shooting at gaming tournament in #Jacksonville pic.twitter.com/0qClyvbePc
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) 26 August 2018
The shooting occurred amid a video tournament being held at Jacksonville Landing, a substantial shopping, amusement and dining complex.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said he was being refreshed in regards to the ongoing situation.
The state has seen a few mass shootings lately, including at the Pulse dance club shooting in Orlando in 2016, when 49 individuals died, and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland in February this year, when 17 individuals were killed.
The Full Story – Gaming Tournament Shooting
Gamers were playing the American football game Madden at the GLHF Game Bar in Jacksonville Landing when shooting emitted on a Sunday evening.
Numerous shots can be heard in a video that seems to demonstrate the occasion being streamed online on the Twitch stage.
Drini Gjoka, a 19-year-old player participating, depicted the shooting in a progression of posts on Twitter, calling it “the worst day of [his] life”.
He tweeted that a shot had hit his thumb.
Worst day of my life
— Drini Gjoka (@YoungDrini) 26 August 2018
I am literally so lucky. The bullet hit my thumb
— Drini Gjoka (@YoungDrini) 26 August 2018
As per the Los Angeles Times, a gamer opened fire in the wake of losing, at that point killed himself. The report, which cited messages from another gamer, could not instantly be affirmed.
When the firing opened, several individuals fled for shelter and police engaged them to remained quiet as Swat groups checked the territory for conceivable assistants before it was affirmed that just a single shooter had been included.
Social media reactions – Gaming Tournament Shooting
I don’t have anything productive or positive or hopeful to say about the shooting in Jacksonville. I don’t have anything pithy or calming to add. The grief and terror of living in a country that will not address its problem with guns is overwhelming.
— austin walker (@austin_walker) 26 August 2018
I never know what to say in these moments of tragedy, thoughts and prayers are with the families of loved ones that are affected by what happened in Jacksonville.
People who blame gaming for this atrocity hurts. A mentally ill person with access to a gun caused this not gaming.
— Shane Flaherty (@Rawkus) 26 August 2018
My thoughts & prayers go out too all the victims and their families effected by the shooting in Jacksonville ????
— Prettyboyfredo (@Prettyboyfredo) 26 August 2018
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