20-year-old son of county sheriff’s deputy was ‘active shooter’ at FSU. He used his mother’s gun to kill 2 – The Times of India

20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, the son of the county sheriff’s deputy, was recognized because the ‘energetic shooter’ at Florida State College who killed at least 2. Leon County Sheriff Walter . McNeil confirmed this at information convention hours after the emergency scenario was dealt with and the shooter was neutralized. Police mentioned the shooter was additionally injured and hospitalized although it’s not identified who shot him. Ikner had entry to his mother’s gun and it was the identical gun that was used for capturing.

A Political Science main, Ikner’s political leaning is underneath scanner. An previous quote has come to the floor that he gave throughout a college students’ protest. “I feel it is slightly too late. Trump is already going to be inaugurated on Jan 20 and there is not likely a lot you are able to do until you outright revolt, and I do not suppose anybody needs that,” he mentioned earlier than Trump’s inauguration in regards to the college students’ protest in opposition to Trumop.
Earlier than the shooter was recognized, CNN reported that the FSU shooter is an adolescent who’s native to Tallahassee, grew up within the metropolis, within the space and the police have been in contact with his household. Some witnesses mentioned the shooter was a white male with mild hair. One pupil mentioned she noticed the gunman arriving in an orange Hummer and he seemed like a “regular faculty dude”.
“I was leaving the union with my meals. There is a street subsequent to it and I was strolling and this man pulls up in an orange Hummer, and he will get out with a rifle and shoots in my course. There have been a pair of children close to me,” McKenzie Heeter, a junior at FSU informed MSNBC. “I feel he was capturing and he missed. So he goes again into the automotive and grabs a pistol. Then he turns and shoots the girl in entrance of him. That is once I simply began operating,” she mentioned. The shooter was carrying an orange T-shirt and khaki shorts, she mentioned.