FL -- FSU shooting, 2 dead 6 injured, shooter apprehended, Tallahassee campus. 17 April 2025.

[Lyanna]

What age are these kids. It's a university but so many of the kids in the videos look like they're 14, quite young.

Read an article earlier about this shooting, some of the students at this university were in a high school shooting situation back in 2018.

Florida State shooting: At least 2 dead; 20-year-old suspect is stepson of local sheriff's deputy

The suspect is the stepson of a current Leon County sheriff's deputy, according to the sheriff.

abc7ny.com

Terrible thing for youngsters to face one time, let alone twice.
Never understood the gun laws in America.


Moo

 

[arielilane]

@CourtTV


#BREAKING: Police identify 20-year-old #PhoenixIkner as the alleged FSU school shooter who killed 2 people and injured 5 others.Ikner is the son of a Leon County Sheriff Deputy.Watch #CourtTV LIVE for more.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1912982922350788918

 

[arielilane]

@BrianEntin


Filling in for Cuomo tonight at 8pm on @NewsNation.
Latest on the days news including FSU shooting.


6:29 PM · Apr 17, 2025

https://twitter.com/x/status/1912996810609610950

 

[arielilane]

@FBSaunders


The lockdown lasted for hours because law enforcement had to go door to door, checking each campus building for danger or victims. We caught some of it as it happened— this person was found hiding in a bathroom across from the Student Union:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1912955678852808980

3:45 PM · Apr 17, 2025


Source close to the investigation tells me there was one shooter. Law enforcement reports the threat has been “neutralized.”


4:28 PM · Apr 17, 2025




Officials have identified the shooter has 20 year-old Phoenix Ikner. Son of a Leon County Sheriff’s Officer.


4:40 PM · Apr 17, 2025


@FBSaunders


Officials tell me Ikner’s mother is a school resource here in Tallahassee:

 

[arielilane]

@ABC


The alleged Florida State University gunman is the 20-year-old son of a local sheriff's deputy, according to authorities in Tallahassee.

Here's what we know about the suspect so far: https://abcnews.link/g0DtkHI

https://twitter.com/x/status/1913005328922272127

 

[vls12345]

Drew Charter School students were on campus visit to FSU, sheltered in place during active shooter incident

Drew Charter School students are safe and will return to Atlanta after lockdown during a FSU shooting incident.

www.11alive.com

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

I have asked them. That is what I meant by "we talk." One is in HS and one upper elementary. They have drills in school, we talk about them. We will talk this evening about this shooting probably. School shootings are not fears that they seem to have. They are just another thing to be aware of.

Are they sensitized? That would be super concerning to me.

 

[LadyL]

Some students at FSU shooting are Parkland massacre survivors.

omg it's inconceivable to me
trauma like this twice over would make for a lifetime of PTSD IMO

 

[ttjo]

MSN

Apparently, he frequently quotes the bible, the Jeremiah passage talks about how god has full control over the rise and fall of governments, and then he has a bunch of references to Trump, not sure if that has anything to do with what he did.
Not only was what he did atrocious, you also have to decipher their ramblings to figure out why he did it!! If they have a message or something to say, do they think this will get their message delivered? it's insane.

 

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[vls12345]

Florida State shooting: 2 dead, sheriff’s deputy’s son in custody

Two people were killed and a 20-year-old son of a deputy is in custody after an on-campus shooting at Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee.

www.nbcnews.com

The suspect in the FSU shooting espoused white supremacist views and was removed from a political club, the group's president, Reid Seybold, said.

The president of Tallahassee State College's political discourse club said the suspect had been attending group meetings as recently as last semester, often sharing far-right views that made others uncomfortable.

It sounds like the mass murderer routinely attended at least 2 political clubs on campus. (More details at link.)

 

[vls12345]

Florida State University: Man used police officer mum's gun to kill two at campus police say

The 20-year-old alleged gunman began shooting at around lunchtime near the student union building.

www.bbc.com

The motive is unclear. The deceased were not students, campus police said, but their identities have not been released.

 

[vls12345]

Florida State University: Man used police officer mum's gun to kill two at campus police say

The 20-year-old alleged gunman began shooting at around lunchtime near the student union building.

www.bbc.com

The suspect is the son of a veteran Leon County police officer who is a model employee, said Sheriff Walt McNeil. Jessica Ikner, a school resource officer, kept the gun after the force upgraded its weapons.

 

[vls12345]

'Heinous crime': Officials count the casualties at FSU after latest U.S. mass shooting

"This is a tragic day for Florida State University," FSU President Richard McCullough said as he teared up.

www.tallahassee.com

His mother is a resource deputy at Raa Middle School, and the handgun he used to commit the "heinous crime" was his mother's retired service weapon that she owned.

"Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons," McNeil said. "We are continuing that investigation into how that weapon was used and what other weapons he perhaps may have had access to."

 

[vls12345]

'Heinous crime': Officials count the casualties at FSU after latest U.S. mass shooting

"This is a tragic day for Florida State University," FSU President Richard McCullough said as he teared up.

www.tallahassee.com

The FBI has opened up a tip line at FBI — Seeking information on FSU Shooting to track down more information from the hundreds, maybe even thousands of witnesses present at the multiple crime scenes inside and outside the building.

The university is also offering services to provide support to students who may need it. Members of the campus community or those affected can reach out to FSU's Counseling & Psychological Services team at (850) 644-TALK (8255).

 

[vls12345]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/florida-state-university-shooting-phoenix-ikner-invs/index.html

A review of court records show Phoenix Ikner had a tumultuous childhood, with another woman — identified in the documents as his biological mother — accused of removing him from the US in violation of a custody agreement when he was 10 years old.

Leon County court records show that Ikner’s biological mother was accused of taking him to Norway when he was 10 years old, in violation of a custody agreement. The court documents refer to the child as Christian Eriksen, and say that he and his biological mother are both dual US-Norwegian citizens.

The shooting suspect later changed his name from Christian Eriksen to Phoenix Ikner, a law enforcement source confirmed to CNN.

 

[DS2021]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/florida-state-university-shooting-phoenix-ikner-invs/index.html

So was he adopted?

 

[vls12345]

So was he adopted?

I have no idea. While the CNN article had some info, I still feel quite confused re: his bio mom & his name change. MOO.

 

[DS2021]

I have no idea. While the CNN article had some info, I still feel quite confused re: his bio mom & his name change. MOO.

Quote from that article

It’s unclear whether the suspect’s biological mother has had contact with him over the last decade, and she did not respond to requests for comment. But just after the shooting, she posted on Facebook complaining that her son’s dad hadn’t responded when she wrote “to ask if everything is alright with my son, who studies at FSU.”

It definitely sounds like his bio mom is not the women who works as a deputy

 

[DS2021]

FSU student who knew suspected shooter says he was removed from club for white supremacist views