Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, leaving 3 people dead.
Jacksonville Landing shooting
The Jacksonville Landing shooting, also known as the Jacksonville shooting, was a mass shooting that occurred at a video game tournament for the video game Madden NFL 19 in Jacksonville Landing, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, on August 26, 2018, at about 1:30 pm (EDT). A lone gunman, David Katz, shot and killed two people and injured ten others before killing himself.
2023 Jacksonville shooting
On August 26, 2023, three people were fatally shot by a gunman in a mass shooting at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida. Authorities identified 21-year-old male Ryan Christopher Palmeter as the gunman. Palmeter shot and killed himself after he barricaded himself in an office. The incident has been described as a terrorist attack and racially motivated, and is currently under investigation as a hate crime.
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city consolidated in 1968. It is the tenth-most populous U.S. city with a population of 949,611 at the 2020 census and estimated at over 1 million in 2024, while the Jacksonville metropolitan area at over 1.76 million residents is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Florida and 38th-largest in the United States. City-county consolidation greatly increased Jacksonville's official population and extended its boundaries, placing most of Duval County's population within the new municipal limits; Jacksonville grew to 900 square miles (2,300 km2). It is the second-largest city by land area in the contiguous United States.
August 26
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 127 days remain until the end of the year.