

He was believed to be known as "Bread" and won the February 2017 Buffalo Bills tournament of the Madden NFL football game. The shooting, which occurred during a Madden NFL 19 Classic qualifier event, reportedly left four dead and 'several others' injured. Katz was active in eSports, tournaments where video game players compete, and get seen on social media playing. It was the first of four tournaments for the popular football game, where players. The game's maker, EA Sports, lists a David Katz as a 2017 championship winner. On Sunday, August 26, a shooting was reported at a Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida. Katz allegedly got upset about losing the game, according to some media reports. Two other people died and nine were injured. Madden NFL 19 Super Bowl Prediction Says Rams Will Beat Patriots Madden NFL 19 Deletes Kareem Hunt From The Game After Assault Video Emerges EA Sports. Williams said the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot, adding authorities were still making final confirmation of his identity with the FBI assisting them in Baltimore.

Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said authorities believe Katz carried out the attack using at least one handgun. Viewers can watch the games online and see the players. 27, 2018 4:06 PM PT The fatal shooting Sunday at a Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., cast a pall over a sport that has players battling for ever-larger prizes and has. What happened: A shooting occurred during a Madden 19 Tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, according to the Twitter page of CompLexity Gaming, one of the gaming teams. He had come to Florida to participate in the Madden NFL 19 competition at the Jacksonville Landing entertainment complex, which was live streamed on Twitch, where the shooting can be heard. The competition was held in a gaming bar that shares space with a pizzeria. And another gamer said on Twitter that a bullet had grazed his head, adding that he was “traumatized and devastated.” Yet another was heading into surgery Monday morning, worried he’d never play video games again.Ĭover: Police tape is seen as law enforcement officials investigate a shooting at the GLHF Game Bar located in the Jacksonville Landing on Augin Jacksonville, Florida.David Katz, who is believed to be the suspect in the Jacksonville, Florida, video game tournament shooting, was 24 years old and from Baltimore.

The event was livestreamed on Twitch before the broadcast cut off. ]()Another gamer, Drini Gjoka, said a bullet grazed his thumb. A mass shooting opened fire killing and injuring several people. After he lost, he left the grounds, only to return armed with two guns. All are expected to survive, according to the [Tampa Bay Times. 26, David Katz competed in a Madden tournament in the game room of a Florida pizza parlor. Another six were transported to UF Health Jacksonville, and one was in a serious condition, according to ABC News. Three patients were taken to the nearby Memorial Hospital and are reportedly in stable conditions. The shooting, which occurred during a Madden NFL 19 Classic qualifier event, reportedly left four dead and 'several others' injured. ]()Nine people were injured by gunfire, and two were injured trying to flee the Jacksonville Landing. 01:05 'Politicians, wake up': Witnesses respond to Jacksonville shooting video Florida This article is more than 4 years old Madden NFL 19 tournaments cancelled as shooting suspect's history. gathered for EA Sports’ Madden NFL 19 championship. Taylor Poindexter, of Chicago, was there with Williams during the shooting and injured her [ankle while escaping. Madden NFL 19 event organizer Electronic Arts, known as EA, has pledged a 1 million in a fund it is establishing to support the victims of Sundays. Police believe 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore to be the suspect in a mass shooting that killed two people in Jacksonville, Florida. “But it took a quick second for it to dawn on us that there weren't any balloons anywhere in the restaurant and then we just heard probably two or three more 'pops' and we realized it wasn't anything other than gunshots and we got up and we took off running toward the door.” "We went to the bar to order a pizza, so no more than probably two or three minutes sitting at the bar, we just hear a 'pop' and it sounded like a balloon," Marquis Williams, a gamer who was watching the competition from Chicago Pizza, told ABC News. Fringe sites Infowars and Gateway Pundit identified the competitive video gamer who opened fire at the Madden NFL 19 tournament Sunday as a user named. Their event was soon broken up by gunfire and frenzied running. People showed up to the building of a Jacksonville pizza shop Sunday afternoon to compete in the Madden game, or hang out and watch other players.
