The December 2023 Robloxia attacks

The December 2023 Robloxia attacks, also known as the Great Robloxia massacre of 2023 or The Attacks on Robloxia of 2023 or mostly referred to in Robloxia as 12/9-12/2023, was a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, mainly taking place throughout a three-day long period from Saturday, December 9 to Tuesday, December 12, 2023, in Robloxia and the city's suburb, West Island. The attacks on Robloxia first began when two of the three shooters (who was robbing some money at a store, around the time) at 10:35 PM R.S.T, entered inside of the Robloxia Hotel during the night of December 9 and pulled their guns out immediately and begin firing at the workers, which all of them was later reported to be dead; they then went up to the second floor of the building, breaking into every room and slabbing a bunch of Robloxians to death, before one of the shooters throw and planting a bomb, resulting in a huge explosion.

The following day in the afternoon of December 10, shortly after robbing another few stores beforehand, the three main guys/shooters raided the famous-Roblox HQ near 36th South Street and started to shoot at numerous of office workers; one cop try to get the shooters but was fatally shot when the others two managed to spot him, pointing his gun at them both. For the people that did not get hurt, they were taken hostage inside of one of the rooms instead. As this was happening, the third person had already stolen R$2 billion, before taking the main stairs, shooting both Roblox and Builderman, going on the rooftop of the HQ and begin to fire at the people below; before once again, throwing a deadly bomb, killing every single cop on the ground and caused a massive fire to break out, in and out of the whole building and area. On December 11, they went inside the West Island Theater, where there, they shoot and fatally killed 50 people inside, who were watching a movie. Finally, the next day, on the 12th of December, they went to a local park, and began to shoot little children, alongside with their parents; a major shootout occurred there and by 6 P.M. R.S.T, the shooters were dead.

Following the two main attacks, the city was put into lockdown and many, many cops were driving around all of Robloxia, however they did not know that the shooters had left to West Island and believe they were still in the city in hiding somewhere, until the news broke up about the West Island Theater shooting; that was one of the many reasons the police were heavily criticized for.

More than 950 Robloxians was killed, including 100+ cops and the three attackers, while around 2,000+ were severely injured and had to be rushed to many different hospitals; property damage was said to be around R$100 billion dollars, due to the huge bombing that happened at the Roblox HQ and the Robloxia Hotel; these attacks also gained huge-media attention with the president of Roblox, even coming to the city to pay their respect.

Background
Robloxia is an Robloxian-majority city of nearly 10 million people living there; it is located about 70 miles away south from the Roblox-Amaxon border. On the first day of the shooting, December 9 was actually a holiday for many of the robloxians; resulting them to stay home and relaxed with their family, but not all of them; some had to work in their offices, while December 10 would be the day when the people return back to their jobs.

Security safety
Following the mass shooting at a local bank in the city of Robloxia, where nearly 45 local robloxians in the area or building; mostly workers were fatally shot and killed, the year prior to the attacks in March of 2022, most of the security in the popular areas like the Roblox HQ, were raised very high in about a month to 30% (before) to almost 70% (after).

The RCTCD throughout a three-month period from October 2022 to January 2023 held the first major security training exercises since 2013, 2017 and 2019 and was in the middle of the second major exercises in the month of December 2023 when the deadly attacks happened, causing the event to be completely cancelled, rather than getting postponed.

Planning and preparation
After the attacks, a bunch of sources reported that the three shooters planned this deadly attacks since last year in 2022; however, this was said to be false as these attacks on the city of Robloxia were actually planned as early as 2019, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Around that time, Alex Paul was trying to figure out on what their next target for a major-attack would be, after they went on to shoot a big-high school near the town of East Island. He decided to pick on a very extremely popular city, named Robloxia and would later by January 2020, presented the idea to Easton Jackson, who eventually really enjoyed it, since the attack would be set in Robloxia and different parts of the town near it and a week later, gave approval for Paul to go headed with the plot. Both him and Jackson held numerous of 1 to 2 hours long meetings to discuss about how the attack would works and when the time to do so.

One of the many ideas that were rejected and even scrapped throughout the rest of the year, 2021, 2022 and into 2023, were to hijack a small-plane, not a huge-jet and smashed head on into one of the many popular buildings, but at the end, got completely rejected during a meeting in Christmas 2020, where Easton Jackson said that it would be too similar to the September 11th attacks; a another idea was to take the whole ROBLOX HQ down, but got scrapped after a week or so, mainly because they would get killed from the smoke and debris if all of them didn't made it out by time. By the end of 2021, during the holiday season, the targets was chosen with them aiming for the ROBLOX HQ, where originally one of the shooters would take him hostage rather than shooting him and the Robloxia Hotel, however around that time, they didn't added in West Island to the attacks; this was due to the fact, that it was for them, a small town and not a big city like Robloxia.

In the spring of 2022, they made their date for the attack to happened in December of that year; by June, it was delayed to early-2023, and later set it for Holiday 2023 in November 2022. Throughout several months from January 2023 to May 2023, all of them had purchased a bunch of weapons, including guns (40 to be exact; 18 were used in the attacks, knifes and bombs; this caused their own parents, friends and family to be very suspicious.

In September 2023, Jackson rented a big room for him and his buddy for mainly about $50 dollars per day; they would have stayed there for about 5 days (which was later changed to a day) near the Robloxia Hotel, where they would begin their attack over there. Recording to one of his family members, a month later in October 2023, two months before the attacks and a week before Halloween, they all opened out their own Twitter via Jackson's account, called the The Real (Not Fake) Murders, and typed in these words:"December 9, 2023.... The day when the city will suffer for good... This is not a joke, repeat, this is not a joke... Again, December 9, 2023 is the day everyone will died for good.."Beforehand, this tweet right here, only was seen by 2 users with one of them saying: "Okay?"; however, following the attacks on Robloxia, it had since gained huge attention with now, being seen over 250 million times.

Theories
Since the attacks in late-2023, there had been numbers of major theories, spreading about it; one of them is why the shooters choose the date of December 9 (holiday) and mainly not, any other.

In late-2024, it was reportedly by his grandparents, that the main reason why the shooter picked December 9 as the date was actually because, not it was a holiday, before the real event would begin at Roblox HQ; the shooting and bombing at the Robloxia Hotel would be the a set-up to them.

Events

 * For a bit more information on the attacks, see the other article: Timeline of the December 2023 Robloxia attacks.

December 9, 2023 (Day I)
On the early morning of December 9, 2023, Easton Jackson grabbed his gun, walked over to his parent's bedrooms and fatally shot them both in the chest, head and the legs, before setting them on fire; around this time, his 9-years old brother had just woken up and was about to go get some breakfast, but heard a loud noise, followed by a large cloud of smoke, coming from one of the rooms inside the house. The fire did not really spread that much inside, only damaging three rooms, one of which was his parents', and the black smoke was not seen until after two friends had left.

Jackson then came out of the room, unharmed since he was far away from the fire, alongside the smoke and fired mainly two shots at his brother, one of which missed its target and made impact into the wall, blowing a tiny hole in it as the second successfully hit him into the neck; he instantly collapsed to the floor, still alive, but was bleeding uncontrollably and rapidly; shortly after, he passed away at the local hospital, hours before the Robloxia Hotel shooting began. Easton Jackson, using with his Messenger app, texted both of his 26-years old friends. First, he explained that he was going to murder his family. Second, he said that he "shot" all of them. Third, he asked Alex Paul to get his own car and drive over to his place. Last, he said, "Yeah.... Ok, let's roll the three of us together". Hudson. W asked him: "Are you ready guys"; a big reference to the famous quote, "Let's roll".

Paul with Jackson, now inside of his car would drive 10 miles to the town of South Island to Hudson's house, where there before, he used a "big" knife to attack and fatally murder his father; he was sleeping at that time and at that time, his family had gone on a vacation lasting for ten days. Alex then texted him at 8:26 AM R.S.T, saying: "We's here" in which he responded back, just saying to him: "Ok". Alex went out of the door and straight into his friends' car; they immediately speed out from the parking lot, going to Robloxia (city). At around 8:45 AM R.S.T, the car was heavily traveling near the local bridge on 8th Ave or as South Ave at an speed of nearly 70 MPH; a bus with more than 10 people on board is seen in all of the four screenshots below, about to make a left turn, to the east part of the whole city when the driver saw the ongoing car, heading to him; in an interview, dated on March 9, 2024, the driver of the bus named Tenon. R, stated that, once he saw the vehicle; he pressed and pull on the reverse gear, resulting in the whole entire bus to move backwards and luckily, the car managed to fly pass them.Paul with both Jackson and Hudson eventually arrived at the place at 11:04 AM R.S.T, where they would hang out inside until around nighttime, when the hotel no longer accepted check-ins. According to a former co-worker named Sophia. D who was interviewing with Dr. James on their famous show The Dr. James's Show! on December 29, 2023 (20 days after the deadly attacks), she recalled being a part of a room service in the small building and seeing the three shooters entering in, but were acting "strange, weird and very nervous" as they were holding a numerous of these "big suitcases"; she did not think much of it, thinking that this was their first time ever and later at around 11:36 AM R.S.T, bought them to their new room and immediately after all of them went inside, one of the "guys" smashed the door like crazy.

In another interview, dated from mid-2024 (May 9, 2024, to be exact), Sophia. D explained that at around 7:50 PM R.S.T (nearly 3 hours before the attack first began), she spotted one of the shooters (Hudson), leaving the building and holding a suitcase that was hiding something "a bit" suspicious; inside, was two separate loaded guns, five bombs and one small pepper spray. At 8:07 PM R.S.T, nearly forty-five seconds worth of footage, taken from a CCTV, showed Hudson walking around at 59th Ave/45th Street, heading toward at a local market, where inside there, would rob three cashiers at 8:15 PM R.S.T. At around 9:50 PM R.S.T, both Jackson and Paul exited their "small" room, shortly after calling a local taxi to take them to the hotel, holding this time, five suitcases; all of them having one gun, two explosives, one small and the other big, a gas bomb, pepper spray and a knife in each of them all and left the building, just six minutes after packing their stuff up.

The car shooting and crash
At around 10:19 PM R.S.T (16 minutes before the attacks), some witness reported that they heard loud gunshots as they were walking down near 48th Street, coming from inside a fasting-moving car (moving at a speed of 60 MPH; not exact), mainly heading in the direction to the famous Hotel, before making a extremely hard left-turn and to the right, resulting in the car to easily lost control and, just seconds later, crashed head-on into a big wall, plus a person on the bench were severely injured, due to the bench breaking apart when the "big" crash occurred; the driver of that car was actually shot and killed by Jackson.

One of the main witnesses stated that he heard something extremely weird, but very alarmed which, according to him, sounded like a "car was siding down the road", then being followed, second later by a "very loud bang and a part of a wall exploding". Immediately, he began to run to the spot of the crash where it was revealed that the car had really did crashed; some people were recording while others was staring in shocked, few even decided to help out the injured person, who was now in massive pain and awake. At 10:21 PM R.S.T, two people (Jackson and Paul) exited the now-destroyed car with only two suitcases (three were heavily damaged), between them by going out of the windows and into the ground and left the area if like nothing had ever happened.

Robloxia Hotel shootings, slabbing and bombing
At 10:32 PM R.S.T, video surveillance with audio show both Jackson and Paul, outside of the main entrance, now putting out their guns and two local bombs, getting ready for the major attack; it also features them talking, right before going inside the building to shoot and also forgetting about the crash with Paul saying to Jackson, first: "Ok, ok, ok.. It about time we do this.." with Easton responding back: "Yeah, yeah.. Ok, man.. Let roll!..", the same reference to the famous quote, used on November 10, 2002, "Let's roll".

At 10:35 PM R.S.T, they entered in through the door with their gun pointing directly to a few people and a second later, both of them fired the first six bullets; two of whom missed it original targets and impacted one of the painting on the wall, breaking the glass into pieces and blowing a small hole in while the other didn't really hit the wall, but rather, hit the bottom of a counter, where three of the five workers were about to finished their jobs; however the rest of the bullets (four to be exact) successfully hit two people, one struck the head of a female co-worker; right after, she let out a very loud, pain scream, causing the others in the area to get scared. One of the workers, who was a 37-year-old adult male, sitting down right near the shooters, yelled out "Hey, put down the gun down!"; this didn't work at all as he was straight away spotted by Jackson in the left-side corner and got fatally killed on the spot to death. Anderson Lincoln, a co-worker in the hotel, said that one of the youngest workers, a female started to sob as one of the shooters (Paul) was about to fire at someone and yelled out, "Don't do it!"; Paul then responded back to her to "Shut up" and shot her few times in the face, arm and chest.

One more shot ringed out with it hitting a young 19-year-old in the face, who was reported by his family to be talking a small walk outside; his nose got blown off and he collapsed to the floor, now dead. This was followed by even more numerous of gunshots, many of them hitting the now-panic workers, who are trying to hide something. Four minutes after the attack began at 10:39 PM R.S.T, a scared and crying person called 9-1-1, telling them that there are a couple of active shooters in the building; already by then, multiple Robloxians were dead at the scene as Jackson and Paul begin to walk down the main hallway and into one of the elevators that was going up to one of the floors. At 10:42 PM R.S.T, a another, this time, short video surveillance, worth of only 30-second of footage with audio, like before showed Jackson and Paul exiting out of the elevator on the 2nd floor, above the main entrance where the shooting took place, just minutes ago and immediately began to run down the main hallway; Jackson can be heard, heavily breathing like nut, but also extremely serious in tone, saying: "This is the place where these stupid, lazy and idlots people will died, like we said" in where Paul respond back to him: "Yeah man, anyways, let spread apart". They then made a left-turn to the other rooms, where there, the recording ends, due to the duo, now not being heard or even shown in the camera.

At around 10:45 PM R.S.T, the RPD (Robloxia Police Department) immediately approach at the scene, after four minutes when the first call was made inside; around the same time, there were reports of yet-a another round of gunshots, this time coming from the 2nd floor of the whole building. Matt Jackson, who was a guest in 'Room 207' that and his friend survived, said in an interview: "I remember waking up to the sound of gunshots, coming from down the hallway near us, which I started to panic very quickly, because you know, this could mean the end of my life; so, I got up and told my friend to get out too and he like, What?" He also said: "I yelled at him that there was a shooter, breaking into our room and he also panicking too; after that, we hide in our bed as the gunman broke our door open". Beforehand, Jackson broke in into four different rooms and began their next mission of the first attack; to slab as many people as possible they can in every single floors. At 10:47 R.S.T, five different cops, is seen on one of the CCTV to be running up the staircase, with the two going to the 2nd floor, the others, heading to the 3rd and 4th floors of the hotel, respectively.

At 10:48 PM R.S.T, a body camera from one of the police officers with the audio on, featured him getting out of the police car and walking slowly to the entrance of the building, saying: "We have shots fired inside at Robloxia Hotel, this is an 888, repeat, shot fired inside of Roblox Hotel." A person is seen running out of the building with the cop right say: "Don't move!" to him; the unnamed person respond to him, saying: "Ok, ok! the cop asked him a question about where the shooter is in which the person said: "At the 2nd floor! At the 2nd floor!". He then ran inside the building, where it showed an extremely disturbing picture; people can be easily seen on the ground, covered in dark red blood from the gunshot wounds that they and the round of gunshots is barely heard from the 2nd floor of the building. At 10:49 PM R.S.T, another body cam shows two cops, running in the distance where the shooters were, one loading his gun and the other (body cam), pointing his big-gun and a taser; once again, shots are fired, this time, it is coming from one of the many rooms and the sound of people in that room, screaming while getting slabbed in total pain is heard.

The two cops realized and heard the noise and started to run as fast as they can to stop the shooter (Jackson); they made it to 'Room 211' and one of the officers in an angry tone yelled, "Come out of there and put your head up!". Jackson did not respond to his commands and continued to stab the person to death with his knife. At 10:50 PM R.S.T, the cop with the body cam screamed out: "Look, just put the gun down and come out!"; this was a major mistake as immediately after saying that a large round of gunshots burst out and unfortunately, the two cops got fatally shot in the head, arms, legs and face, ending the recording from the body cam. At around 10:55 PM R.S.T, the other four cops went to check the 2nd floor of the building, since none of the shooters were on the 3rd or even 4th floor; the video surveillance from earlier showed the sound of moving footsteps and it revealed to be the three cops; they ran with their big gun and even tasers, in case the shooters don't listen or continue to shoot at them. At 10:55 PM R.S.T, a recording from an CCTV with audio, near the rooms of 224 and 226, where Jackson was about to break into, showed the moments when one of the cops spotted him and yelled out, "Hey! Hey!" in which Jackson pointed his gun at him and fired 2 bullets; both of them missed their targets and instead, broke into the door of Room 221; around the same time, the FDI arrived at the scene to deal with the two shooters. Around 10:55 and 10:57 PM R.S.T, the same two security cameras from one of the very first floors in the entire building, mainly being the 2nd floor, showed both of them running as fast as they can up the stairs while holding their guns and tasers; alongside a big, black shield for protection, then taking the north-side hallway for a bit, before going to the left, now heading on the path of the east-side hallway, where there, the shooters had just finished killing two local cops, not even 10 minutes ago and were once again dealing and shooting with this time, 4 more cops, being stronger from the others which only had guns only.

At 10:58 PM R.S.T, as the two FBI officers were nearing the area of the shooter's spot, a major shootout began with the first and second huge round of gunfire by Jackson occurred, just seconds after one of the four police officers yelled out loud, “Take cover!” as the shooter was about to fire at all of them; most of the shots pointed at the cops were mostly a big success, at least for a good while as stated in a small interview from 2024, hitting two in both the face and the chest parts of their bodies, since they did not get down quickly on time like the cop told them to do. One of which screamed extremely loud in massive pain, causing Jackson to get a bit scared, heavily thinking that all of them, except for the two were about to get him and eventually again, shots rang out across the hallway. At 10:59 PM R.S.T, the two officers finally arrived at the spot, where they saw a couple of the officers on the floor, still fully alive, despite them getting fired and shot by Jackson, who ran as fast as he can away before they both came here, plus a long recording from a body camera from one of them that nearly lasted for ten minutes started to record; which was not working for a while. It showed a cloud of gray smoke covering the area, due to the numerous of shots being fired, moments ago. Around that time, one of the two cops who got shot, can be heard in pain, groaning, getting the attention of the RBI officers, who were just standing, frozen and looking around the place, in shocked; after, one of them looked and kneed down at the cop and say to him, “Where he is!?” in which the officer didn’t respond and talked to him, since he was trying hard to hold blood down on his now-blooded chest, instead he pointed his “weak” finger to the direction where the shooter was beforehand, it was the left, still down the east side of the long hallway.

The FBI officer, who kind of understood him well, said to him, “Ok! Come on now, let go!” as he got out from the floor and did the same thing, this time to his other officer, pointed and started to run in that same direction as Jackson did. At 11:00 PM R.S.T, a yet-another video surveillance camera near the end of the hallway, feature Jackson, running, still holding his big gun while also trying to load it at the same time, after firing big rounds of shots to the cops; at the same time, Paul was hiding in the local bathroom on the 3rd floor, where there, was planning a big bomb and working on its since he and Jackson ran away from each other to do their stuffs; beforehand, at 10:51 PM R.S.T, video surveillance features Paul walking down the westside of the hallway, to the bathroom near Room number 329 all way to 344, holding a big gun and something in one of his hands which was a bomb, around the time when the police arrived at the scene.