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Jacksonville Landing mass shooting victims identified

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Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson
Pictured, David Katz shooting victims, fellow Madden 19 Jacksonville Landing victims, Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson
Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson
Pictured, David Katz shooting victims, fellow Madden 19 Jacksonville Landing victims, Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson

Why? David Katz shooting victims i’d as fellow Madden 19 Jacksonville Landing victims, (Eli) Elijah ‘Trueboy’ Clayton and Taylor Robertson. 

Social media has identified the two fatal victims of Sunday’s Jacksonville mass shooting at the hands of disgruntled Madden football video gamer, David Katz, 24, as fellow pro gamers, Taylor Robertson, 27 and Elijah Clayton, 22.

Also injured in the shooting at the Jacksonville Landing were another eleven to twelve individuals with gunshot wounds. Katz was identified as the third mortality after taking his own life following picking off fellow pro gamers after having been eliminated earlier in the day in the Madden 19 football video game league.

Confirmed as one of the deceased was Taylor Robertson of Ballard, West Virginia. Social media revealed the gamer being a 2009 graduate of James Monroe High School. The gaming community, as well as close friends, posted about the slain husband and father. According to EA Sports, Robertson aka SpotMePlzzz played 18 games as part of the Madden community and won 72 percent of them.

Monroe County Clerk Donnie Evans posted on Facebook Sunday night asking for prayer for Robertson’s family.

‘God please be with this family and wrap your loving arms around them,’ Evans wrote.

Monroe County resident Andrew Evans wrote Robertson was ‘nothing but a winner.’

‘I looked up to him so much when I was little as did most boys in Peterstown,’ Evans wrote. “He loved his family more than anything.”

Jacksonville pro-gamer shoots two dead injures eleven after losing

Taylor Robertson
Pictured David Katz shooting victim, Taylor Robertson of Ballard, West Virginia. Pictured with wife and child.

Also confirmed as the second fatality at the hands of Katz was Eli Clayton, 22 , of Woodland Hills, California, otherwise known as Trueboy.

A short video clip from a live stream portion of the tournament showed Clayton wearing headphones and a red sweatshirt. What appeared (see below) to be a gun’s red laser targeting dot was clearly visible on his chest.

Ironically prior to his shooting death, Clayton, tweeted on August 25 the day before the mass shooting that he had won every game by max and was waiting for the singles on August 26.

According to tweets the gamer posted, Clayton had originally planned not to attend the Jacksonville event, but changed his mind about a week ago.

A previous report via The Florida Times-Union cited Clayton taking the Jaguars who he played for to the national finals last year in Madden. In April 2017, he was one of eight finalists in the Madden 17 Club Series finals in Los Angeles. He won $3,500.

Clayton who resided in Los Angeles, had become a celebrity in the gaming world. He had amassed 5,000 followers on Twitter.

He told the Florida Times-Union in an interview last year: ‘It felt like a real NFL game, even though it really wasn’t. It’s something I’ll never forget.’

EASports described Clayton as ‘one of the best Madden Ultimate League competitors at open-field running thanks to his evasive stick-work.’ He had the No. 3 overall defense in the regular season this year and he’s known as the “Hold the Door Specialist.”

Jacksonville pro-gamer shoots two dead injures eleven after losing

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