A fellow gamer of Joshua Yarn, who carried out a shooting in Dallas, made a distasteful joke about the incident at the ice facility where he killed one person and seriously injured two others.
The gaming group, which has eight members and formed on Steam back in 2012, plans to introduce a game titled “Da Pew Pew” under some unusual names like “Fug Bithces Get Money” and “Uze or Not We Are Coollll:D.”
One member commented in the group chat on Thursday, saying, “[He] missed it.” It’s a pretty unsettling response.
Yarn, 29, was known for playing first-person shooter games, racking up over 17,400 hours of gameplay—about two years in total.
Right before the tragic shooting, he had logged into Steam to play titles like Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2, according to a profile created in September 2011.
Interestingly, he had received the “Mind Blow In” Award for his Steam account as well.
The FBI reported that after firing several rounds at the Dallas Ice Facility, Yarn took his own life due to self-inflicted injuries.
On the platform, he used various usernames, including “#Impeachment,” “Hankiebob,” and “Frank Hoenikker.”
Hours prior to the fatal event, he was playing first-person shooters on Steam, including Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.
A peculiar detail emerged: buried underneath disturbing themes, a map indicating the U.S. radioactive fallout was found taped to Yarn’s car near the scene. The text on the battered map read, “Radioactive Fallout from a Nuclear Explosion has passed through these regions more than twice as many times since 1951.”
