4 people shot dead at an esport gaming tournament in Florida.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Game rage at a new level.

 

 

Reported that 11-15 people injured & 4 people dead (including the suspect) during a targeted shooting that occurred during an NFL Madden esport event that was live streamed on twitch at Jacksonville Florida , it's is being treated a mass shooting at the moment but might change as threat seems to be contained & suspect is deceased .

 

The shooting took place in the Sunday's event which was held at a place inside the shopping mall during a regional qualifier for the Madden 19 online game tournament at the GLHF Game Bar inside a Chicago Pizza restaurant, Jacksonville Landing area, which is located along the St. Johns River.

 

 

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The incident is being investigated as a criminal act, and not an act of terrorism, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

 

Several people on social media participating in the Madden NFL tournament reported hearing gunshots shortly after 1:30 p.m. during the livestream of the tournament on the platform Twitch ,  Madden NFL 19 is a new video game based on the NFL that’s developed and published by EA Sports. 
 

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The shooter was a participant of the tournament who lost, according to Steven “Steveyj” Javaruski, another competitor. He told the Los Angeles Times that the shooter "targeted a few people" and shot at least five victims before killing himself.

 

Contest winner tweeted out >>

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UF Health Jacksonville received six patients, including one in serious condition. The victims ranged in age from 20 to 35 years old. The victim in serious condition had multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, and doctors are monitoring this patient's heart.  At least three patients were shot once, and three were shot more than once, UF Health said.

 

 

 

official statement

 

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Electronic Arts, the company who developed the Madden game, tweeted the company is "aware of an incident at a sanctioned Madden Championship Series competition in Jacksonville. We are working with authorites to gather facts at this stage."

 

 

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that President Trump has been briefed on the situation, and are monitoring.

 

 

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting/gunman-kills-four-at-video-game-tournament-in-florida-idUSKCN1LB0M7

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/26/jacksonville-landing-shooting-kills-at-least-4-sources-say-gunfire-heard-at-gaming-tournament.html

https://abc7chicago.com/4-dead-9-injured-in-jacksonville-madden-tournament-shooting-source/4059545/

http://time.com/5378639/madden-shooting-jacksonville-florida/

 

reportedly , Multiple members of the online gaming community stopped playing on the live-streaming service Twitch to react to reports of the shooting.

 

Anyways, due to political nature of this , Be balanced while in discussion or don't discuss it at all, no blind blaming on what's the cause, i'd rather see no discussion happening down there as a response to this rather than seeing a flame war discussion going nowhere stamping & put blame on anything that moves, surely these kind of events usually winds down to two things in public , does gun play a role or violent games play a role in causing events like this to happen in this kind of a place.  in brutal honesty , this was a game rage gone too far . so there's that.

 

 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Early and quick reminder to keep this non-political.

 

On topic:

How do we know it's "game rage taken to another level"? Is that just because it happened at a game bar where a tournament was taking place?

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Early and quick reminder to keep this non-political.

 

On topic:

How do we know it's "game rage taken to another level"? Is that just because it happened at a game bar where a tournament was taking place?

Yeah IDK if this is even tech news, just because the shooting took place at an esports tournament doesn't mean it was because of the games.

[DocSwag]

6 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Early and quick reminder to keep this non-political.

 

On topic:

How do we know it's "game rage taken to another level"? Is that just because it happened at a game bar where a tournament was taking place?

Just want to make sure but discussing gun control counts as political correct?

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, DocSwag said:

Just want to make sure but discussing gun control counts as political correct?

Yes.

[Emberstone]

I would remove that video of the shooting in progress. Even though we don't see it, people are dying.

[Tech_Dreamer]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

just because the shooting took place at an esports tournament doesn't mean it was because of the games.

yeah it's in a quote up there somewhere.. i dunno..

 

"The shooter was a participant of the tournament who lost, according to Steven “Steveyj” Javaruski, another competitor. He told the Los Angeles Times that the shooter "targeted a few people" and shot at least five victims before killing himself." 

[PCGuy_5960]

Not really tech news and it probably wasn't going to end well anyways.

 

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