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A member of the Milwaukee Bucks video gaming team was shot three times, including once in the hand, during the rampage at the Madden NFL 19 tournament in Florida, his mother said.

Tim Anselimo, who goes by “Olarry” and “Larry Legend” on the gamer circuit, was one of 11 people wounded when sore loser David Katz, 24, allegedly sprayed the GLHF Game Bar in Jacksonville with dozens of bullets on Sunday.

“Devastated,” Anselimo, 25, tweeted Monday. “No words. Surgery in the morning. Thanks to all who reached out.”

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On Sunday evening, Anselimo’s mother, Sujeil Lopez, tweeted an alarming message: “My son was shot 3 times please keep him in your prayers,” she wrote.

As Lopez rushed to the hospital to see her son, she told The New York Times he “was shot … once on the nipple, once on his hand and somewhere else.”

“I have to get to him. I am four hours away from him and I have to get to my son,” she said.

Later, she posted a photo of her pro-gamer boy giving the thumbs up from his hospital bed during a visit from Florida Gov. Rick Scott. She also posted a picture of Anselimo surrounded by other pro-gamers who witnessed the attack, his right hand wrapped in bandages.

“God was with these guys today,” she wrote.

Shooting suspect Katz, a losing player, killed two people then himself, authorities said.

One chilling photo posted by Lopez showed Anselimo’s backpack peppered with blood stains. “My son’s gaming book bag with his blood from being shot,” she wrote.

Cayle Drabinsky, the co-managing director of Bucks Gaming, said in a statement that he was “in close contact” with Lopez and monitoring Anselimo’s health.

Anselimo was one of six people drafted by the Bucks earlier this year for the inaugural NBA 2K season, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Players receive a base salary of $30,000 and a chance to compete for $1 million in tournament prize money.

A total of 17 NBA teams chose players who competed against each other during a season that ended this month.

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