EA has pledged a $1 million contribution to the families of the victims involved in the shooting in Jacksonville last week. For those of you who don’t know, players had gathered to play Madden NFL 19 as part of a qualifier event for the publisher’s Madden Classic series when a gunman fired off shots, killing two gamers and injuring many more. Police found the perpetrator dead at the scene.
The company said that “it can’t begin to understand the pain so many are going through” but defiantly added that its “community inspires”. As a result it’s set up the Jacksonville Trust, and it’ll be making a $1 million contribution which will be put towards supporting the families of those who lost their lives, as well as those who were injured or traumatised by the events.
Furthermore, it’ll be hosting a livestream on 6th September where mourners will be invited to donate and support the victims. “This horrific event will not define us,” it said, “but only serve to make our community stronger.” Amen.
[source twitter.com]
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Good on EA to do this.
Respect
Saw the article had no comments, thought you locked it after the last one, so I'm just leaving it here so nobody makes the same mistake. 😉
Though now that I think about it I can't recall PS ever having a (b)locked article. NL has had a few. Maybe a few EU only giveaways I couldn't comment on.
That's really nice of them
Fair plays.
That’s great. Hopefully it’ll help some of the families if they lost their main provider with the shooting.
This is so sad. One of the people who lost their life was from the area where I live.
Now it's time to start putting money towards the campaign against gun licensing. Too many of these horrible events have taken place and Congress have their fingers in their ears.
That's nice. I hope this tragedy won't happen again.
Real nice of them.
We do want this sims mobile cheats here.
Nice to see, good effort EA.
The only thing I don't like about their message is the following;
“This horrific event will not define us,” it said, “but only serve to make our community stronger.”
The words are nice, I imagine they are very sincere, but these events will define the lives of the families destroyed. The community has no right to feel stronger because of it, the community is insignificant compared to the victims friends and families.
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