Jacksonville shooting survivor awaits prognosis

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Timothy Anselimo woke up from surgery around dinner time on Monday night.  Surgeons are doing all they can help save his right thumb.  

Anselimo, 26, known in the gaming community as OLARRY 2k, was shot three times when a fellow gamer opened fire in the middle of a Jacksonville competition.  

"His half-brother was watching him live on TV and heard the shots and he called Tim. Called my son, the first time Tim didn't answer. He called him a second time.  Tim answered. He said time I heard shots and he told him I was shot. Tell my mother I love her. And the phone went dead," Sujeil Lopez told reports as she fought back tears.  

Lopez says her son was shot three times.  

"He was shot in the chest. It entered his nipple. And it's now underneath his armpit.  It's still there. The other was in his hip. It entered and exit. The other was through is hand to his finger. Tip of right finger and thumb," said Lopez.  

She tells us her son is right handed, so he's scared.  OLARRY2K took to Twitter before his surgery saying ,"STILL IN SHOCK. WORK UP CRYING KNOWING TODAY'S SURGERY WILL DETERMINE IF I'LL EVER PLAY VIDEO GAMES AGAIN"

Lopez says she raised her son near a dangerous part of New York.  She was thankful her son loved playing video games because it kept him off the streets and away from danger.  Never did she imagine the online gaming world that helped keep himself throughout would be a target for what police say was an angry fellow gamer.  

Lopez tells they news station that she was expecting a phone call from her son getting a play by play of how the competition went, not on how he had to run for his life.  

"My son was shot twice. He fell. He had to jump over the fence and when he got up to leave he was shot a third time.  His friend picked him up. They literally jumped over a fence. And was at the Hooters. Hooters opened the doors and held him in there until police arrived then an ambulance.

Lopez says doctors determined during today's surgery that OLARRY 2K will have to undergo a second surgery trying to correct the damage to his right hand.