BREAKING: Mass Shooting in Florida
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https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-r ... a/22833779
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Police in Jacksonville, Florida, have responded to a reported mass shooting at a video game tournament involving multiple fatalities.
"Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing. Stay far away from the area. The area is not safe at this time. STAY AWAY," the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter.
Vic Micolucci with WJXT-TV says "multiple people" were shot at the event, according to his sources. WJXT reports at least four people are dead, but police have not revealed an official number of the dead or injured at this point.
The shooting occurred during the Madden 19 Tournament at the GLHF Game Bar, according to the Twitter account of CompLexity Gaming, one of the event organizers. The tournament is being held at the Jacksonville Landing, a marketplace in the downtown section the city.
One Madden participant, Young Drini, was grazed in the hand and is away from the scene and safe, Complexity said.
This makes me so nervous, when I hear-of these things.....
Video games----Aspie? Oh, dear.....
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"What we know is a drop; what we don't know, is an ocean." (Sir Isaac Newton)
How many times do you think right wingers will say:
"Thoughts and prayers"
"Stop trying to take our guns away, they just kill people!! !"
?
Always is. The disturbing point about this country. I wonder what "sob" story the papers will spin about this killer.
Another day. Another person dead. Another regular day in Amerikkka.
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"NBC Nightly News" just reported that the suspect is dead.
No final count, yet, on number killed / injured.
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What We Know About David Katz, The Jacksonville Landing Shooter (UPDATING)
According to a grisly account from witnesses, Katz was “nerdy” and angry that he lost the competition before he started shooting. Witnesses implied that the death toll was higher than currently reported.
Baltimore man identified as gunman in Jacksonville shooting that left 2 victims dead
Federal authorities were at a home in the 1200 block of Harbor Island Walk near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Sunday night as part of an investigation into the Jacksonville mass shooting.
Alleged Jacksonville shooter David Katz of Baltimore (Photo: Social media)
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What we know about Jacksonville gunman David Katz
People in the online gaming community said Katz had played under the game tag “RavensChamp” and “Bread.”
» Katz had previously won several tournaments and boasted of his prowess in an interview posted to YouTube.
In a video circulating social media, an announcer is heard introducing Katz by commenting on his intense focus and standoffish attitude. “David Katz keeps to himself. He’s a man of business. … He’s not here to make friends.”
He used at least one handgun to commit the shooting.
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Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said at a news conference Monday afternoon that investigators have not yet determined a motive.
He said Katz recently purchased two handguns used in the shooting legally from a licensed dealer in the Baltimore area.
He also attended the University of Maryland previously, but was not enrolled this semester, university President Wallace Loh said. He enrolled beginning in September 2014, and majored in environmental science and technology, a university spokeswoman said. He did not live on campus.
Natalie Gill, a former teaching assistant and graduate student at the University of Maryland, said Katz struggled and kept to himself when he was in her class in the fall 2015. She said the picture of him going around online “with no smiling” reminded her of “how he looked all the time.”
“I knew the other students very well, but he did not open up the same way as the others did,” Gill, 27, said. “I pulled him aside and asked if there was anything I could do to help and he basically had no reaction to that.”
Gill said Katz had a hard time keeping up with the assignments, but thanked her at the end of the semester for “being a good T.A.”
Peggy Marx, 52, remembers the family keeping mostly to themselves. She would invite them to neighborhood barbecues and events, but they’d never come. Some neighbors, Marx said, would comment on how they saw police cars outside the family home. Marx says the Katz family left the neighborhood nearly a decade ago, but she still remembers them. “Them being antisocial,” she said. “That’s the only thing that makes them memorable.”
Another neighbor remembers them somewhat differently. Renee Williamson said the family was very quiet, but did try to reach out occasionally. When Williamson gave birth many years ago, the Katz family brought over a gift. Still, she didn’t know the family well. They once invited her to their son’s karate tournament. They haven’t spoken since the family moved, and the parents divorced.
We feel like, after what happened, it may not be as safe as it was before,” Peppler said. “There should never be a fear of someone taking our lives because of video games.“
Jacksonville shooting suspect specifically targeted fellow Madden gamers
David Katz, a 24-year-old gamer from Baltimore, Maryland, was in town for the tournament at GLHF Game Bar at the Jacksonville Landing, a downtown shopping and dining complex. He walked past patrons in other parts of the restaurant and then opened fire on his fellow competitive gamers before killing himself, Williams said.
The shooting left two people dead, 10 injured from gunshots and one person with a non-gunshot injury, Williams said. All of the injured are expected to survive, he said.
"As bad as this is, it could have been much worse," Williams said.
Alexander Madunic, a gamer who was shot in the foot, said the shooter lost a game in the Madden tournament earlier in the day and was angry.
On Monday, Memorial Hospital released the names of four surviving victims it treated:
-- George Amadeo II, 17, is in good condition.
-- David Echevarria, 28, was treated for minor injuries and released.
-- Alexander Madunic, 27, is in good condition after a gunshot wound to the foot.
-- Christopher McFarland, 31, is in good condition after a bullet graze to the head.
UF Health said four patients were discharged, but two others remain hospitalized. One is in serious condition and one is in good condition, the hospital said
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Television news reported that Katz had had several involuntary hospitalizations (one report said 6, another report said 4). There was a suggestion of schizophrenia and psychosis.
So how was he able to legally buy two handguns in Maryland?
As a person formerly involved in the mental health field, I can say that notifying authorities of psychiatric history is a HUGE issue in these gun-control situations. I don't see this being acknowledged anywhere in the press. Mental health providers are barred by privacy laws (HIPAA and others) from disclosing treatment and diagnostic history of patients. Any provider who does so is in serious legal jeopardy. So it's fine to say felons and the mentally ill should not be able to buy guns; but it's another matter entirely to enforce that. (And felons have succeeded in buying guns, too, usually in another jurisdiction.)
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So how was he able to legally buy two handguns in Maryland?
As a person formerly involved in the mental health field, I can say that notifying authorities of psychiatric history is a HUGE issue in these gun-control situations. I don't see this being acknowledged anywhere in the press. Mental health providers are barred by privacy laws (HIPAA and others) from disclosing treatment and diagnostic history of patients. Any provider who does so is in serious legal jeopardy. So it's fine to say felons and the mentally ill should not be able to buy guns; but it's another matter entirely to enforce that. (And felons have succeeded in buying guns, too, usually in another jurisdiction.)
From what I understand, his involuntary hospitalizations were from when he was 12 or 13. I have absolutely no idea whether this makes any difference in buying handguns as an adult. Perhaps the privacy laws you mention prevent hospitalizations as a minor from being considered? Or maybe there's a time limit to how long before prior hospitalizations can be allowed?
So how was he able to legally buy two handguns in Maryland?
As a person formerly involved in the mental health field, I can say that notifying authorities of psychiatric history is a HUGE issue in these gun-control situations. I don't see this being acknowledged anywhere in the press. Mental health providers are barred by privacy laws (HIPAA and others) from disclosing treatment and diagnostic history of patients. Any provider who does so is in serious legal jeopardy. So it's fine to say felons and the mentally ill should not be able to buy guns; but it's another matter entirely to enforce that. (And felons have succeeded in buying guns, too, usually in another jurisdiction.)
You can be held for 48 hours or what not without a judge, any longer requires a formal commitment by a judge(its this thst disqualifies gun ownership, as should be)
From a brutally honest standpoint, I've played video games, over the last 21yrs now, though currently at this juncture I dont, still I don't over react and become agitated nor angered in a manner that would incite me to violence.Absolutely not, for I've always learned that one simply has to learn you will win, you will loose and that winning every damned time is complete BS;therefore, have a sense of reality.
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You know, every time we hear about a mass shooting, we aspies hope it isn't blamed on autism; but if you think of some of the really bad shootings - the one where Gabby Giffords was shot, the Colorado movie theater "Batman" incident, and now this one - it seems schizophrenia can be the culprit. And then there are the ones where the shooter was just a plain old a-hole - the Vegas outdoor concert (Jason Aldean concert), that white kid that shot up a bunch of black people in their church.
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