Florida shooting: Four killed, including gunman at a video game tournament

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Florida shooting: Four killed, including gunman at a video game tournament

Florida shooting: Four killed, including gunman at a video game tournament on Business Standard. The police said a mass shooting led to multiple fatalities and warned people to stay 'many blocks' away


Latest News Four people were killed in a shooting on Sunday in a mall in Jacksonville, Florida Firing, media reports said. Eleven people were wounded by the gunfire, of whom four have died, Efe reported. "There were three deceased individuals at the scene, one of those being the suspect, who took his own life," Sheriff Mike Williams told a news conference yesterday, naming the suspect as 24-year-old David Katz from Baltimore, Maryland. The police said a mass shooting led to multiple fatalities and warned people to stay "many blocks" away. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter that the shooting took place in Jacksonville Landing, a downtown market place, and warned everyone to stay "many blocks" away from the area, as the area "is not safe at this time". While local law enforcement authorities have released no specific figures, they are speaking of "multiple" fatalities at the Jacksonville Landing mall, including many people taken to hospitals in the area. "Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing. Stay far


away from the area. The area is not safe at this time. STAY AWAY" said the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office on its Twitter account, adding in another tweet "Multiple fatalities at the scene, many transported". In yet another Twitter message, the Sheriff's Office said: "One suspect is dead at the scene, unknown at this time if we have a second suspect. Searches are being conducted." Sheriff Mike Williams said at a Sunday afternoon press conference that authorities are currently working with the hypothesis that there was just one shooter and that he died during the incident, but he said that the identity of the white male gunman had not yet been confirmed.

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