Tallahassee, Florida (AP) – When a 20 year old man open fire At the Florida State University, terrified students barricaded doors and fled to the campus, abandoning the chemistry notes and even the shoes, during a shooting which, according to the investigators, had killed two men and wounded at least six others.
Friday morning, commemorative monuments of candles and flowers dotted the campus and the students and the teachers began to return to recover their personal effects while they were trying to start healing from the shooting of the day before, which sent shock waves of fear through the campus. A pair of watch has been scheduled for the afternoon.
“I heard shots and then, you know, just blackened afterwards,” said Carolina Sena, a 21 -year -old accounting student who was inside the student union when the shooting started. “Everyone was crying and panicked. We were trying to barricade ourselves in a small corner in the basement, trying to protect us as much as possible.”
The shooter, identified by the police like Phoenix Ikner, would be a student from the state of Florida and the son of an assistant to a sheriff who opened fire with his mother’s former service weapon, the investigators said. The authorities have not yet revealed a reason for the filmingWho started for lunch Thursday just outside the student union.
The police quickly arrived and shot and injured the shooter after refusing to comply with the orders, said Tallahassee police chief Lawrence Revell.
AP Audio: fear and panic to Florida State while the deadly shooting sends students fleeing
The AP correspondent, Ben Thomas, reports that the man arrested during Thursday’s shooting at Florida State University is a student and a son of an assistant to a sheriff.
The two men who were killed were not students, said Florida State University police chief Jason Trombower, who has not disclosed additional information on the victims.
The shooter has obtained a weapon that belongs to his mother, who has been at the Sheriff’s office for over 18 years and is a model employee, said the Sheriff of the county of Leon Walt McNeil. Police said they thought Ikner had shot the victims using her mother’s former handgun, whom she had kept for personal use after strength has improved her weapons.
Five people injured were struck by gunshots, while a sixth was injured when he was trying to run away, Revell said. On Friday, two should be released from Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, three were improved in good condition and one stayed in Fair, a spokesman for Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare said on Friday morning.
The shooter was a long -standing member of the Youth Advisory Council of the Sheriff’s Office, said sheriff.
“It was imbued with the family’s sheriff’s office in Leon, engaged in a number of training programs we have,” said McNeil. “It is therefore not a surprise for us that he has access to arms.”
On Thursday evening, Ikner was in the hospital with “serious but non -fatal injuries”, according to Revell. The hospital refused to provide an update on the state of the shooter, saying that he could not comment on the identity of the patients.
The witness says that the suspect’s hunting rifle is blocked
Ambulances, fire trucks and patrol vehicles ran to the campus just west of the capital of Florida while the university has published an active shooting alert.
Aidan Stickney, a 21 -year -old, studying business management, was late in class when he said that he had seen a man coming out of a car with a hunting rifle and targeting another man in white polo.
The pistol blocked, said Stickney, and the shooter rushed to his car and emerged with a handgun, opening fire on a woman. Stickney ran, warning others as he called it on 911.
“I was lucky today. I really did it. I really did it,” he said.
Trombower said the investigators had no evidence that someone had been shot down with the shotgun.
Firing shots sent dispersed students
Holden Mendez, a 20 -year -old student studying political science and international affairs, said he had just left the student union when he heard a series of shooting. He fell into a building in the neighboring campus, where his previous training in emergency intervention began.
“There was a lot of fear. There was a lot of panic. There was a lot of disinformation spread. I was doing my best to fight this,” he said. “I said to people,” Breathe deeply. This building is secure. Everything will be fine. »»
Andres Perez, 20, was in a classroom near the student union when the alarm sounded for locking. He said that his classmates had started to move offices in front of the door and that the police came to escort them.
“I still hang out in the student union,” said Perez. “So the second I discovered that the threat was there, my heart sank and I was afraid.”
Shooting shock campus and the nation
President Donald Trump called the shooting “a horrible thing” while suggesting that he would not plead for any new firearms. “The pistol is not the shooting, people do,” he said in the oval office.
University President Richard McCullough said he had a heart broken by violence. “Our hearts go to our students and to the victims of this terrible tragedy,” he said.
Another shooting a decade ago in Florida State a decade ago
Florida State has around 44,000 students. In 2014, the main library was the site of a Take this injured three people. The police pulled and killed the shooter, Myron May, 31 years old.
The university canceled the courses for the rest of the week and canceled sports events at home until Sunday.
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Fischer reported Fort Lauderdale. The journalists of the Associated Press Stephany Matat in West Palm Beach, Curt Anderson in Saint Petersburg, Michael Schneider in Orlando, Mike Balsamo in New York, Eric Tucker and Christopher Megerian in Washington, John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed to this report.
