Madden online gaming tournament in florida 11 injured and four dead

The shooting on Sunday broke out during the Madden NFL 19 Classic regional qualifying tournament at the Good Luck Have Fun video game room. The video game venue is attached to Chicago Pizza, a restaurant inside the Jacksonville Landing shopping complex that sits on the north bank of the St John's River. 

 In a livestream of the tournament, one of the players is seen with a dot that appears to be a laser pointer dancing on his chest and neck. 

 As the live video shot cuts to the action on the virtual football field, gunshots and chilling screams can be heard in the background. The commentators can be heard going silent as the first gunshots are fired and people begin screaming. 

 The stream then cuts off and a message appears saying 'controller disconnected'.

Chilling moment laser-sight targets one of two video gamers shot and killed by losing contestant before the dead-eyed murderer turned his handgun on himself during Florida competition

Police have identified the mass shooter who terrorized a video game tournament in a shooting spree that was partially captured on a horrifying livestream. David Katz, 24, killed himself and two others, and left 11 people injured in the shooting at the Jacksonville Landing complex in Jacksonville, Florida at around 1.34pm on Sunday, police said. According to friends in the gaming community, the two men whom Katz killed in the tournament were Taylor 'SpotMePlzzz' Robertson, 27, of Ballard, West Virginia and Eli 'Trueboy' Clayton, 22, of Woodland Hills, California. Robertson was married and father to a young son, and had won 13 out of his 18 prior matches in Madden NFL tournaments, according to EA Sports. 

Clayton was a rising star in the Madden community. Police have not yet confirmed the identities of the deceased victims. Local media, including the Miami Herald and ActionNewsJax, have named Robertson and Clayton as the deceased victims, after members of the Madden gaming community posted numerous online tributes. 

 An official close to the investigation said that the gunman killed himself with the semi-auto handgun used in the shooting, which had a laser sight. 

Florida Governor Rick Scott visited several of the injured on Sunday night, including Timothy 'OLarry2k' Anselimo, who was expected to recover after being shot in the chest and hand. Williams said that Katz was from Baltimore and had traveled to Jacksonville for the Madden 19 video game tournament. His car was seized by police near the scene.

About 150 gamers competed in the competition for a $5,000 prize. The winner was set to go on to a finals tournament in Las Vegas with a $125,000 prize. 

 One of the gamers to defeat Katz in the tournament told ActionNewsJax that Katz was acting 'weird' on Sunday and wearing the same clothes he wore the day prior, on the first day of the tournament. The gamer said that when he beat Katz on Saturday in the group round, he tried to shake his hand, but that Katz just stared back at him blankly.

Another witness to the shooting, Javarius Long, told the Tampa Bay Times that the shooter was acting 'nerdy'.

 Long said that Katz got mad after losing in the elimination round on Sunday, left the venue presumably to retrieve the gun from his car, and came back and started 'blasting everybody'. 

 Katz is known to have gone by the gamer monikers 'RavensChamp', 'Bread' and 'TREXHAVAHARTATAK'. In February 2017, he won the Madden 17 Bills Club Championship in Buffalo, New York. 

 An announcer for one of the gaming tournaments Katz previously played in described him thus: 'He is not here to make friends.

 He's all business, he's focused, and to even get him to open up to talk to you about anything - it's like pulling teeth, man.' After defeating the number two seed 41-7 in the Bills Madden Club Round, Katz told a reporter: 'I don't think of myself as a 7th seed. 'I think personally, I'm one of the better players – and I like to let my game prove that.' He added: 'I understand the game really well.

 My opponent probably should've called his timeouts… I took advantage that he didn't.' According to the New York Post, he won $10,000 at the Buffalo Bills Madden Club tournament, but lost in the quarter-finals in California. When asked if he was nervous during the game in Buffalo, he added: 'Honestly, I felt like I had the ball most of the game. I wasn't really doing too much on defense.

' As a child, Katz had 'significant healthcare needs', according to court records in his parents' divorce.