TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — In the future after being launched from the hospital, Phoenix Ikner, 20, made his first look on the Leon County Courthouse.
Tallahassee police mentioned Ikner made his means via FSU’s campus on April 17 — taking the lives of each Robert Morales and Tiru Chabba, whereas additionally injuring six others.
He’s dealing with homicide expenses and will likely be held with out bond.
“You have been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and 7 counts of tried first-degree homicide, possible trigger has already been decided,” Decide Monique Richardson mentioned in courtroom Tuesday.
Ikner’s face was nonetheless swollen after he was shot within the jaw by officers. Police mentioned he refused to adjust to their orders.
Ikner underwent a number of surgical procedures throughout his close to month-long hospital keep and now could be being held on the Wakulla County detention facility, since his mother works within the Leon County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The courtroom was full of Florida State College college students. 8 On Your Aspect caught up with two of them who expressed their anger and frustration, as they replicate on their experiences from the campus capturing.
“Having to ship out the textual content to my associates that had been within the union and ready hours to listen to again, pacing, ready, nervous, scared that I wasn’t going to listen to again from,” mentioned Noah Brown, who’s in FSU’s grasp’s program. “It was, it was harrowing. It was simply horrifying.”
The scholars shared that they could not pinpoint why, however they every had a powerful urge to point out as much as courtroom.
“I lived 4 blocks away, and if I hadn’t come, I might have been kicking myself for years to return,” mentioned Reid Seybold, FSU senior political science scholar.
“Numerous a whole lot of ache in there, praying for the households, however there’s a sense of obligation to see it via,” Brown mentioned. “Being only a couple blocks away like, it’s important to come right here and watch it, and I hope the jury and the decide, I hope they offer him what he deserves. And I imagine that is staying in jail for the remainder of his life.”
Attorneys for Chabba’s household launched an announcement, saying Ikner’s first look in courtroom is the beginning of the transparency course of:
That is an extremely troublesome day for Tiru Chabba’s household, significantly his spouse and two younger youngsters. Our hope is that, via the thorough and clear investigation and prosecution of the occasions surrounding final month’s capturing, as we speak’s courtroom look will mark the primary steps towards closure for a household that suffered a lot.
That journey is much from over and we have now a great distance left to go. However Mr. Chabba’s household want to thank the Tallahassee Police Division and State Legal professional Jack Campbell for his or her dedication to making sure that justice is finished for his or her household and all these scarred by this unthinkable act of violence.
A press release by attorneys Bakari Sellers. Jim Bannister and J Robert Bell III.
Ikner was ordered by Decide Monique Richardson to don’t have any contact with victims, the household of victims and another witnesses on campus.
