Jacksonville Shooting

• Jacksonville shooting: What we know about the ‘racially motivated’ attack

  The U.S. Justice Department says it’s investigating the Jacksonville shooting as a hate crime and an 'act of racially motivated violent extremism.'

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  Aug 28, 2023
  
• Florida’s DeSantis booed at Jacksonville vigil after ‘racially motivated’ shooting

  Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another attack that investigators say was race-motivated.

  U.S. News

  Aug 28, 2023
  
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• Jacksonville, FL pastor encourages sadness over fear after fatal shooting kills 3

  The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. within a mile of Edward Waters University, a small, historically Black university.

  World

  Aug 27, 2023
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• 6 people injured in shooting near Jacksonville Jaguars stadium, 3 in critical condition

  Six people were injured Sunday in a shooting that took place five blocks away from TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. 

  Crime

  Oct 21, 2018
• Jacksonville eSports shooter David Katz was twice hospitalized for mental illness, court records show

  The man behind a deadly shooting at a Florida video game tournament had previously been hospitalized for mental illness, according to court records in his home state of Maryland.

  Crime

  Aug 28, 2018
• Video game maker cancels 3 Madden NFL tournaments after mass shooting

  Video game maker Electronic Arts canceled three tournaments of its Madden NFL 19 football game to review safety protocols after a competitor who lost a tournament attacked with a gun, killing two gamers and wounding 11 others.

  World

  Aug 28, 2018
• Jacksonville shooting: Here are the victims of the eSports mass shooting

  A day after 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore opened fire inside Jacksonville Landing, the location of a “Madden NFL 19” video game tournament, the gaming community mourned the two players killed Sunday afternoon.

  Crime

  Aug 27, 2018
• ‘We should’ve stepped it up long ago’: Players call for more security after Florida eSports shooting

  A champion gamer’s decision to open fire Sunday afternoon during a video competition — killing two people and wounding nine others before killing himself — has prompted calls from gamers for more security at esports tournaments.

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  Aug 27, 2018
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• Jacksonville shooting: Police search for motive after 2 dead in video game tournament

  Police searched on Monday for a motive in the third mass shooting in Florida in two years, which left two people dead and 11 wounded in Jacksonville, before the gunman killed himself at a video game tournament.

  Crime

  Aug 27, 2018
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• Jacksonville shooting suspect David Katz had lost in video game tournament: reports

  The murder-suicide occurred during a Madden NFL 19 video game tournament in a restaurant at Jackson's Landing, a waterfront retail and entertainment complex in downtown Jacksonville. 

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  Aug 26, 2018