At least six were rushed to the hospital, with one critical and the others allegedly in serious condition, following the FSU incident.
US President Donald responded to the shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee on Thursday by declaring the attack as a “shame” prior to sitting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
I’ve come to know of the Tallahassee, Florida State University active shooting. It’s terrible.
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It’s a horrible thing. It’s horrible that this occurs. We’ll have something to say later,” Trump said to reporters.
At least six individuals were being treated, one critical and others serious, a Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare spokesperson said.
Authorities have made no announcement on the suspect or the sequence of events leading up to the Florida State University shooting.
Multiple emergency responders—such as ambulances, fire engines, and police cruisers—rushed to the campus west of the state capital after the university’s noon active shooter alert, with reports of police presence around the student union.
A single suspect was taken into custody following the shooting, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press.
Students and personnel were instructed to seek shelter while police responded to the location. The university’s main campus consists of over 42,000 students.
This is the latest in the series of deadly school campus shootings in the US.
There was a 2014 incident where there was a Florida State University graduate who shot at the campus library, where two students and one staff member were injured as hundreds of students sat there studying for tests.
Who is Phoenix Ikner? FSU Incident: Gunman identified as Leon County Sheriff’s officer’s son
Phoenix Ikner was named as the shooter who murdered two individuals and injured five others at the shooting on Thursday.
A 20-year-old deputy’s son was taken into custody at the scene, authorities stated at a news conference.
Several claims regarding Ikner being ‘anti-Trump’ have circulated on social media today. A photo and tweet from a single X user also contained that he is a registered Republican.
Iker had access to his mother’s firearms, Sheriff Walter McNeil confirmed during the presser. He added that the 20-year-old had received a number of training sessions.
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“Unfortunately, one of her guns was available to her son, and that was one of the guns recovered at the scene.
We are pursuing that investigation into how that gun was used and what other guns, maybe, he had access to,” McNeil said.
Phoenix Ikner claims surface on social media
Social media followers shared screen shots of an Florida State University News report, in which a political science student, he, attended an anti-Trump rally. Authorities have yet to confirm whether he was the suspected gunman.
“These individuals are generally quite much a source of amusement, generally for not particularly good reasons.
I suppose it is little too late, he’s [Trump] already being inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there simply is not anything you can do unless you have a complete revolt, and I do not believe anyone would desire that,” Ikner said in the paper last January.
Responding to these allegations, one of the social media users wrote: “He had been going to anti Israel and Trump protests.
Everyone on the campus knew who he was. Another brainwashed child of the DNC.”
“The shooting suspect, Phoenix Ikner, 20, was a Democratic Socialist who had also taken part in an anti-Trump protest,” another user posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Justin Wooten, nonetheless, asserted that he was a registered Republican voter. They also added a screenshot.
“Phoenix Ikner, Florida State University incident shooter, was a registered Republican – it’s sad we have to do this because all the Republicans already began calling him a “left wing lunatic” to dunk on democrats,” another tweet posted.