TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Court docket data filed in Leon County shed new gentle on who the suspect in the Florida State University shooting is.
Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil stated the alleged shooter, Phoenix Ikner, was associated to one in every of his deputies, who’s Ikner’s stepmother. Ikner was stated to have gotten access to his stepmother’s personal handgun, which was discovered at FSU.
Two individuals have been killed and 6 others have been injured within the mass capturing. Ikner was additionally hospitalized after being shot by police.
According to NBC News, the suspected shooter, Phoenix Ikner, initially glided by the identify Christian Gunnar Eriksen. An FBI official instructed NBC that the 20-year-old modified his identify in 2020, taking his father’s final identify.
Court docket data confirmed that as a baby, Ikner was in the midst of a custody battle that escalated in 2015 when his organic mom, Anne-Mari Eriksen, took her son overseas towards his father’s needs.
On March 27, 2015, his father, who was already married to Ikner’s stepmother by this time, filed a report of a kid custody order violation towards Eriksen.
Based on a possible trigger affidavit, the boy’s mom initially instructed his father that she can be taking their son to South Florida for Spring Break.
As an alternative, Eriksen fled the nation for Norway. Court docket paperwork stated Ikner and his mom have been twin residents of america and Norway.
Court docket data acknowledged that whereas Eriksen had custody rights, she was not allowed to take her son overseas with out 14-days discover.
“Mr. Ikner suggested that Christian has developmental delays and has particular wants which he feared wouldn’t be taken care of with out entry to his medical doctors right here in america,” the 2015 affidavit stated.
Based on one other affidavit, Ikner had a number of bodily and psychological well being points that required treatment, together with a development hormone dysfunction and ADHD.
Finally, Ikner was returned to his father, and his mom was sentenced to a 200-day jail sentence, two years of group management, and two years of probation.
As of this report, Ikner remained in a Tallahassee hospital for his accidents. He has but to be formally charged within the FSU capturing.
The motive for the capturing just isn’t but recognized.
