More details emerge about Florida State University shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner

More details appear on Friday about Florida University The shooting of the suspect Phoenix Ikner as police police are trying to compile what motivated the 20-year-old student to allegedly open fire at his school, killing two and wounding six.

Ikner was shot and wounded by an official on Thursday afternoon after refusing to comply with the command, said Tallahassee police chief Lawrence Revell. Police also said his mother Sheriff’s deputy at the Leon County Sheriff Office and that they believe that Ikner shot victims using his mother’s former service, which she kept for personal use after the power had upgraded to a new weapon.

Months before the shooting, Ikner was quoted in an article of FSU students on anti-Trumps’ protests at school and was identified as a major political science, According to Wfla.

“These people are usually quite fun, are usually not for good reasons. I think it’s a little too late, he is [Trump] It will already be inaugurated on January 20th and you can’t really do much if you don’t rebel, and I don’t think anyone wants it, “the station quoted Ikner.

FSU Shooter identified, used the Sheriff’s Deputy Mom’s weapon in killing: police

Article It was later updated To say “The earlier version of this article included a quote from the shooter in the shooter on April 17th on the FSU -in the FSU removed by the decision of our editors to maintain ethical journalistic standards and avoid increasing the voice of the individual responsible for violence.”

District Sheriff Leon Walt McNeil also said that Ikner “was imbued in Sheriff of the Leon County Office Family, engaged in numerous training programs we have, “according to the Associated Press.” So, we are not surprised that he had access to weapons. “

Ikner was a longtime member of the Advisory Council for Young Sheriff’s Office, he continued.

On its website, Sheriff of the Leon County Office said his advisory council for young people “It gives you young people Leon an active role in solving youth problems.”

“YAC advises Sheriff, reaching for teenagers of Leon County, inform them of existing capabilities and listen to the proposals of what Sheriff’s office can do to improve his efforts oriented to the youth, states, noting that the group is in charge of identifying and discussing” problems in our district. ”

Suspects to shoot the University of Florida: Who is Phoenix Ikner?

Five people wounded in mass cracking She married the shooting, while the sixth was injured while trying to escape, Revell said in a statement on Thursday night. Everyone was in a fair state, said a spokesman for Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare.

Since Thursday night, Ikner has been in the hospital with “serious but non-driving injuries,” Revell said.

Aidan Stickney, a 21-year-old who studied business control, said to AP to late on Thursday when he said he saw a man getting out of a shotgun car and a goal on another man in a white Polo T-shirt.

The gun was stuck, Stickney said, and the shooter rushed back into his car and went out with a gun, opening fire on a woman. Stickney ran, warning others as he called 911.

“I was lucky today. I really did. Really, I’m really,” he said.

Photos: Campus University of Florida State University

The suspect’s mother, Jessica Ikner, was an officer for over 18 years, and the authorities said she had done a “huge job” in her position.

“Her service to this community was exceptional,” McNeil said at a press conference. “Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons and that was one of the weapons found at the scene. And we continue with the investigation that that weapon was used.”

The two people who were killed were not FSU students, according to the authorities who believe that the suspect was acting alone.

FSU canceled all classes until Friday and said that the athletic events in Tallahassee were canceled over the weekend.

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University President Richard McCullough issued a statement about X, calling a shooting on Thursday a “tragic and meaningless act of violence”.

Fox News’ Rachel Wolf, Preston Mizell, David Spunt, Andrea Margolis, Ashley Pope, Pilar Arias and Associated Press contributed to this report.