GoFundMe created for families of Jacksonville shooting victims

A GoFundMe page has raised nearly $3,000 for families of the victims in the fatal shooting Sunday at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla.

The page, launched by Justin Saline, who wrote that he has been “part of the Madden Community for over 10 years,” had raised almost $3,000 of its $5,000 goal as of 8 a.m. Monday.

{mosads}Two people died and nine people were injured in a shooting during a “Madden NFL 19” tournament Sunday afternoon at Jacksonville Landing, an entertainment area in the downtown area of Jacksonville. The suspect in the shooting died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities.

The money raised through the GoFundMe page will be provided to the families of the two people who died, according to the page. 

“As a community we always come together to try and set their families as straight as possible,” Saline wrote on the page. “My relationship to these players was friends. These are people that we all as a madden community, first meet online, & eventually meet and hang out iin [sic] person.”