More details about the shooting of Florida State University are emerging on Friday, as suspected Phoenix Ekner, as law enforcement, is trying to pieces together that the 20 -year -old student allegedly motivated to set fire to his school, killing two and injured six.
According to Talhasi Police Chief Lawrence Rewel, Ikner was shot and injured after responding to the officials on Thursday afternoon. Police also said that his mother Leon County Sheriff has a Sheriff Deputy with the office and believes that Ikner shot the victims using his mother’s former service handgun, which he had kept for personal use after being upgraded to new weapons.
Months before the shooting, the icner was quoted about the anti -Trump protest at the school in an FSU student newspaper article and was identified as a political science head, according to the WFLA.
“These people are usually very entertaining, usually not for good reasons. I think it is a little late, that (Trump) is already being inaugurated on January 20 and can not really do much unless you do a lump sum rebellion, and I do not think anyone wants anyone to say so.”
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Police said 20 -year -old Phoenix Ekner opened fire at Florida State University in Talhasi on Thursday. (Phoenix Ekner/Instagram)
The article later updated to say that “The first edition of this article involved a quote of gunman in the shooting of April 17 at FSU and removed the decision of our editors to maintain moral journalism standards and to avoid raising the voice of a person responsible for violence.”
According to Associated Press, Leon County Sheriff Vault McNell also said that “Leon County Sheriff is engaged in many training programs in the office family,”. “So it’s not surprising for us that he had access to weapons.”
Ikner was a long -standing member of the Sheriff Office’s Youth Advisory Council, he continued.
The office vehicle of Leon County Sheriff is seen after shooting at Florida State University on Thursday at Talhasi. (Pillar Arius)
On its website, the Leon County Sheriff Office stated that its Youth Advisory Council “gives the youth of Leon County an active role in addressing youth issues.”
“This is the YAC venture to advise Sheriff, reaching the teenagers of Leon County, informing them about the current opportunities, and the Sheriff Office is to hear suggestions on what he can do to improve its youth-oriented efforts,” Given that we are discussing our county on issues “viewing on issues” ,
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A memorial for the victims of shooting of Florida State University was held on 17 April. (Pillar Arius for Fox News Digital)
Five people who were injured in a large -scale shooting collided with bullets, while a sixth was hurt while trying to escape on the sixth, Rewel said in a statement on Thursday night. According to Rewel, the icner was in the hospital with “severe but non-neat injuries”.
On Friday morning, Talhasi Memorial Healthcare said two patients are discharged later today, while “three have improved and are in good position” and “remain in a proper position.”
The campus of Florida State University is seen on Friday, 18 April. (Pillar Arius)
A 21 -year -old Aidan Sticney, a 21 -year -old study business management, told AP that he was running late in class on Thursday when he said he took a man out of a car with a Bangan and targeted another person in a white polo shirt.
The gun was jammed, the sticky said, and the shooter went back into his car and set a woman on fire and emerged with a handgun. Sticney participated, warned others as they called 911.
“I became lucky today. I really did. I really, really did,” he said.
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Law enforcement officers worked at Florida State University after shooting on Thursday, 17 April. (Through imagn images through Alicia Divine/USA Today Network)
The suspect’s mother, Jessica Ekner, has been an officer for more than 18 years and officials said they have done “tremendous work” in their positions.
“His service for this community has been extraordinary for this community,” McNeel said at a press conference. “Unfortunately, his son had access to one of his weapons and was a weapon found at the scene. And we are continuing the investigation of how that weapon was used.”
According to officials, the two people who were killed were not FSU students, who believe that the suspect worked alone.
FSU has canceled all classes through Friday and said that athletic incidents in Talhasi were canceled over the weekend.
“The university will conduct a vigilance in front of the unrelated statue in Langford Green on April 18 at 5 pm on Friday evening,” said this.
Evacueues Wack Police responded to shooting in FSU. (Through imagn images through Alicia Divine/USA Today Network)
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University President Richard McCulla issued a statement on X, which was called a “tragic and insensitive work of violence” on Thursday.
Fox News’ Rachel Wolf, Preston Mizle, David Spunt, Andrea Margolis, Ashley Papa, Pillar Aryas and Associated Press contributed to the report.
