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Heavily armed agents late Sunday have entered the upscale
Baltimore townhouse that belongs to the father of the gunman who
opened fire during a Madden 19 NFL tournament at a restaurant in
Jacksonville, Fla., killing two and injuring 11 before killing
himself.

David Katz, 24, of Baltimore, was believed to have fired shots
during the event at the Chicago Pizza restaurant and bar in The
Jacksonville Landing, Sheriff Mike Williams said at a news
conference. Williams did not speak about a possible motive.

An FBI spokesman, Dave Fitz, confirmed agents had gone to the
upscale townhouse home. But he did not immediately release any
other specifics, citing an ongoing investigation.

The agents could be seen inside the home Sunday evening near
Baltimore's Inner Harbor. They wore bulletproof vests and
carried long guns. Reporters who gathered outside did not see
any authorities carrying any bags of evidence outside.

Katz has been described by witnesses and people who knew him as
a gamer who erupted in anger after losing the event.

Katz died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he shot
multiple people, police said. In addition to the dead, 11 other
people were injured — nine of them with gunshot wounds.

Katz, whose vehicle was located and impounded by investigators,
is believed to have stayed somewhere locally on Saturday night
before the shooting.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office added that there's
"cooperation" in Baltimore with the ATF and FBI as part of the
investigation.

An eyewitness to Sunday afternoon's mass shooting told Fox News
that the gamer, now identified as Katz, had been eliminated from
the tournament before he opened fire.

The witness, who declined to be identified by name but said he
was 30 years old, said he did not know the shooter's identity
but noted there were "multiple guys who were upset" at being
eliminated from the event.

"I know the person was a gamer, for sure. I know that they did
lose, for sure," he said. "I don't know if they came back, I
don't know if they went to get a gun, I don't know if they had
it on them. I really can't tell you that."

The witness told "America's News HQ" that he had just stepped
outside the bar where the event was taking place when the
gunshots rang out.

"I saw the door bust open and three or four girls kind of, like,
fall over themselves to get out of the establishment. At that
point, I didn't know what was going on, but I could tell from
the look on their face that they weren't joking around or
anything like that."

The witness added that he then heard one of his friends
repeatedly shout, "I'm hit! Get help!"

"I didn't know where he was ... but when people started to run,
I just literally started to do the same," said the man, who
added that some friends had died in the shooting.

The witness added that a friend who was inside the bar when the
shooting started told him that "a lot of the guys actually
barricaded themselves in a very large bathroom ... there was
really no way to escape from where we were playing. You were
pinned in there."

One gamer competiting at the tournament, Stephen Javaruski, told
the Los Angeles Times the gunman "targeted a few people" before
he killed himself.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/27/fbi-swarms-family-home- jacksonville-landing-gunman-david-katz.html

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