Who Do We Know In regards to the Suspect?

The scholar who’s accused of opening fireplace on the campus of Florida State College is the stepson of a sheriff’s deputy and has been concerned in regulation enforcement applications.

Authorities named Phoenix Ikner, 20, because the suspect within the taking pictures that left two individuals useless and 6 injured on Friday, April 18 in Tallahassee. 

The taking pictures started shortly earlier than midday and the suspect allegedly shot a number of individuals. Ikner was shot by FSU police and brought to the hospital.

Regulation Enforcement Connection

Ikner’s connection to regulation enforcement is thru his stepmother, who, based on Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil, is an 18-year division veteran.

The sheriff’s workplace’s web site lists a deputy named Jessica Ikner.

“Sadly her son had entry to one among her weapons and that was one of many weapons that was discovered on the scene,” McNeil mentioned.

McNeil added that Ikner was a member of the sheriff’s workplace’s youth council and that he had been engaged in coaching applications they supplied.

Kidnapped by Organic Mom

In 2015, when Ikner would have been round 10 years previous, Ikner’s organic mom, Anne-Mari Eriksen, violated a custody settlement with the then-child’s father and introduced him to Norway, based on a Leon County possible trigger affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE.

On the time, Ikner’s authorized title was Christian Gunnar Eriksen and he missed college assessments, appointments and medicines he was taking for each recognized development hormone dysfunction and ADHD, based on the affidavit.

Following her return to america, Anne-Mari Eriksen pleaded no contest to eradicating a minor from the state, data point out.

Requested to Depart Political Membership Over ‘Uncomfortable’ Views

CNN and NBC reported that Ikner is a registered Republican and that he transferred to FSU from Tallahassee State previous to the spring semester.

In January, Ikner was quoted within the FSU pupil newspaper reacting to anti-Trump protests on campus. He’s described as a political science main by the paper.

“These persons are often fairly entertaining, often not for good causes,” Ikner advised FSU Information. “I feel it’s a little bit too late, he’s [Trump] already going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there’s probably not a lot you are able to do until you outright revolt, and I don’t assume anybody desires that.”

NBC additionally reported that classmates of Ikner mentioned he was requested to go away a political dialogue group over purported white supremacist concepts.

Reid Seybold, who was in the identical political membership, advised NBC and CNN Ikner was requested to go away due to unsettling views.

“He had frequently made sufficient individuals uncomfortable the place sure individuals had stopped coming,” Seybold advised CNN. “That’s sort of once we reached the breaking level with Phoenix, and we requested him to go away.” 

Police haven’t mentioned what the motive behind the taking pictures was.