{"id":71594,"date":"2018-08-27T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=71594"},"modified":"2018-08-27T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:28:04","slug":"jacksonville-shooting-survivors-describe-gunfire-injuries-at-madden-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=71594","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville shooting survivors describe gunfire, injuries At Madden Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, FLA.\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A Florida schoolteacher\u00a0says he was one of those hurt in a deadly mass shooting Sunday at a &#8220;Madden&#8221; video game tournament in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed and nine injured by gunfire,\u00a0police said. Two others sustained injuries that were not gunshot wounds, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected gunman, David Katz, killed himself, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Dalton Kent, of Port St. Lucie,\u00a0said he suffered a gunshot wound to the ankle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the shooting happened, a bullet ricochet and hit my foot, and once the shooting shopping we ran away,&#8221;\u00a0Kent said. &#8220;I waved down an ambulance \u2013and they stopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;When it happened, every time they shot, I was hoping they wouldn\u2019t hit me. Really glad to be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kent said he was in Jacksonville for the tournament. He said one of his friends was also shot and was badly injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(My friend Larry) was shot two times,&#8221; Kent said. &#8220;He\u2019s one of the ones in critical condition. Hopefully, he comes through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-71583\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Elijah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Elijah.jpg 400w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Elijah-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elijah Cummings was shot and killed during shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; JACKSONVILLE, FLA.\u00a0\u2014 A Florida schoolteacher\u00a0says he was one of those hurt in a deadly mass shooting Sunday at a &#8220;Madden&#8221; video game tournament in Jacksonville. Two people were killed and nine injured by gunfire,\u00a0police said. Two others sustained injuries that were not gunshot wounds, according to authorities. The suspected gunman, David Katz, killed himself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}