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Florida gunman 'angry over losing game'

A gunman who killed two people and then himself at a Madden 19 video game tournament in Florida was angry because he had lost, witnesses say.

Police are searching for a motive in the third mass shooting in Florida in two years, which left two people dead and 11 wounded in Jacksonville, before the gunman killed himself at a video game tournament.

Witnesses told local media that the gunman, identified by police as David Katz, 24, of Baltimore, was a disgruntled gamer, angry because he lost Sunday's tournament. It was not clear if he knew his victims.

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