# Breaking News: Mass Shooting at Madden Games Tournament in Jacksonville **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308 "2018-08-26T18:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/1 "2018-08-26T18:37:01Z")
[CNN is reporting](https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/26/us/jacksonville-madden-shooting/index.html) a mass shooting at the Madden video games tournament in Jacksonville, FL. Law enforcement is asking everyone to avoid the area. Details are very sketchy right now. Here’s hoping that the incident is not as serious as the initial report indicates. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/2 "2018-08-26T19:00:35Z")
It probably is. The video of it on Twitch is pretty messed up, not for what it shows (which is thankfully nothing), but for what it foretells. If you look carefully at the African-American boy you’ll see a laser sight pass over him. Yeah. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/3 "2018-08-26T19:17:25Z")
Does anyone know if Trueboy was killed? I’m saddened by the thought that this video will always be burned in his family’s memory. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/4 "2018-08-26T19:27:14Z")
wow this was dumb if the cops don’t get the guy the gamers will …… Video game people can get seriously violent and this tournament is one of the most holy things in gaming …… ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/5 "2018-08-26T19:49:29Z")
CNN is currently saying that one suspect is dead, and there have been four other fatalities, and 11 injuries. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/6 "2018-08-26T19:49:53Z")
Per [Jax Sheriff](https://twitter.com/JSOPIO): Multiple fatalities, one suspect dead, not yet determined if there was more than one shooter. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/7 "2018-08-26T19:53:43Z")
The word is that it was a sore loser exacting revenge. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/8 "2018-08-26T20:02:14Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > The word is that it was a sore loser exacting revenge. Or someone who didn’t know that gaming if different than real life. ---
**Author:** ![Panther\_Modern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Panther\_Modern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panther_Modern)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/9 "2018-08-26T20:06:59Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > If you look carefully at the African-American boy you’ll see a laser sight pass over him. Yeah. Sigh. That sounds aboslutely ridiculous. Do you have proof of this? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/10 "2018-08-26T20:13:14Z")
> [@Panther\_Modern](#): > > That sounds aboslutely ridiculous. Do you have proof of this? I saw a video (sorry, can’t locate it again) and yeah, it’s there. I wouldn’t have noticed if **Doors** hadn’t mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/11 "2018-08-26T20:16:06Z")
When I first heard about it, I thought, “Oh, dear God, no, not another gay bar shooting.” CNN is emphasizing the M in “gaming” now. I really hate this. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/12 "2018-08-26T20:29:03Z")
I lived in the Jax area for years and I’ve been to the Landing many times. On Sundays, it was always packed with people. This is horrible! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/13 "2018-08-26T20:39:54Z")
Monday morning, wake up, make coffee turn on the news, another mass shooting in the US. Yep, just another ordinary day. ☹ How horrible for all concerned. My sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/14 "2018-08-26T20:45:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Or someone who didn’t know that gaming if different than real life. If he’d stuck with imitating the video game, he’d have been throwing a football. Unfortunately, he decided to imitate real life. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/15 "2018-08-26T20:57:47Z")
the update is 4 dead now ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/16 "2018-08-26T21:10:13Z")
> [@Panther\_Modern](#): > > That sounds aboslutely ridiculous. Do you have proof of this? It’s there. I saw it before they took the video down. Looks like [this site](https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2018/08/26/at-least-10-injured-several-dead-after-mass-shooting-at-video-game-tournament-in-jacksonville-fla/) still has the video. In the lower right corner are the players. You can’t see anything, because it’s of the video game, but you can hear the chilling audio of the shooting. Reports are the shooter killed himself after losing the tournament. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/17 "2018-08-26T21:17:09Z")
It hasn’t been officially confirmed, but according to this tweet from someone who was sitting next to him, Trueboy (the guy with the laser sight on him) was killed: [https://mobile.twitter.com/ImSteveyJ/status/1033817390797254657](https://mobile.twitter.com/ImSteveyJ/status/1033817390797254657). ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/18 "2018-08-26T21:32:22Z")
[Here’s a video from NY Post](https://nypost.com/2018/08/26/gunman-at-video-game-tournament-was-player-who-had-lost-report/). It shows Trueboy (I think) in the bottom right corner around 20 secs, then fades and you can hear the gunshots and people yelling. Goddamn. He was just smiling before the video went off and you can see the laser a bit. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/19 "2018-08-26T22:00:35Z")
It’s been a bad week for gamers. Trevor Heitmann a.k.a. “McSkillet" [drove a sports car](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/08/25/youtube-star-mcskillet-killed-mother-year-old-girl-wrong-way-crash-police-say/) down a freeway _the wrong way_ at 100+mph and crashed. Killed an innocent woman and her child, not just himself. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308/20 "2018-08-27T02:04:58Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Does anyone know if Trueboy was killed? I’m saddened by the thought that this video will always be burned in his family’s memory. His name was Eli Clayton and yes, it sounds like he is one of the victims. [Miami Herald article.](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article217367195.html) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-mass-shooting-at-madden-games-tournament-in-jacksonville/820308.md?page=2)