PHOTO GALLERY: Victims of Jacksonville Landing shooting
Witnesses to the mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing on Sunday afternoon said they took video of what was happening to try and open people's eyes about violence in Jacksonville.
The witnesses told Action News Jax that they saw victims being carried out of the Landing.
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Rico Martinez and Javari Long said they were among the first to meet terrified witnesses and and victims as they ran from the Landing.
“I seen a lady, she got hit in the leg, and they was carrying her out," Martinez said.
Spoke to two witnesses who say people from inside the Landing ran to them for help. Said they saw an injured woman being carried from the scene #Jacksonvillelandingshooting @ActionNewsJax
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Martinez said that people fleeing told him and Long that a disgruntled gamer started shooting at the Madden video game tournament.
“I never seen a grown man that shook in my life,” Long said “The look on everybody’s face, they were terrified, they were frightened."
Long said that their first instinct was to start running, but police and paramedics began arriving, so they started taking videos because they're upset over the recent spike in Jacksonville gun violence in.
They specifically mentioned the triple shooting that left one person dead outside the Raines High School football game on Friday.
“When I went on live, I wasn’t trying to get attention, I was trying to let people see what was going on in Jacksonville," Long said.
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