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August 26, 2018

Jacksonville Shooter Kills Two, Injures Nine

At least two are dead and nine others were injured in a shooting today in Jacksonville, FL.

The shooting occurred at the Good Luck Have Fun Game Bar, which was hosting a Madden 19 video game tournament. The alleged shooter, identified as 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore, was reportedly one of the participants and losers in the tournament. He killed himself by a gunshot wound.

Katz, who typically played under the names “Bread” or “RavensChamp,” has been described by witnesses as being livid after he lost the tournament, although an official motive has not been given. People who knew him have said he typically kept to himself. Katz previously won the Madden Bills tournament in 2017.

The deceased victims have been identified as Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson.

“Jacksonville is mourning,” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said. “We have faced an occurrence that is all too common.”

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Neil Simon, Celebrated Jewish-American Playwright, Dies at 91

Award winning playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon passed away on Saturday in New York, due to complications of pneumonia.

The Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe and Pulitzer Prize winner had worldwide success with such enduring plays as “The Odd Couple,” “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Sunshine Boys,” “Plaza Suite,” “Lost in Yonkers,” and the trilogy based on his Jewish childhood and early career, “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” “Biloxi Blues,” and “Broadway Bound.”

Simon adapted many of his comedies for the movies and also wrote original scripts for films including “The Out-of-Towners,” “The Goodbye Girl” and “Murder by Death.”

He had gotten his start in television, writing in the late 1950s for Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” and “The Phil Silvers Show,” winning Emmys for both. His 1997 autobiography “The Play Goes On: A Memoir” was a best seller.

His last play was “Rose’s Dilemma” in 2003, and in 2006 he won the Mark Twain Prize For Humor at the Kennedy Center.

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