Police reported “multiple fatalities” in a Florida mass shooting in Jacksonville, on Sunday. The number of dead and wounded are still not known.
The Florida mass shooting suspected gunman, a white male, was dead at the scene and no other suspects were being sought, the sheriff’s office said. An unspecified number of people were also wounded in the incident.
The shooting took place at an online gaming tournament at a popular complex of shops and restaurants called the Jacksonville Landing.
At a short press briefing, Jacksonville sheriff Mike Williams said: “We just finished clearing the [Jacksonville] Landing of potential witnesses and victims. We have no outstanding suspects at this time. We have one suspect, he is deceased at the scene, he is a white male and we are working to establish his identity.”
Many shots can be heard in a video that appears to show the event being streamed online on the Twitch platform.
The players were playing the American football game Madden at the time. Drini Gjoka, a 19-year-old player taking part, described the shooting in a series of posts on Twitter, calling it “the worst day of [his] life”. “I am literally so lucky. The bullet hit my thumb,” he tweeted.
Florida has seen several mass shootings in recent years, including at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016 and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland in February this year.
