TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Disturbing particulars have been launched concerning the accused shooter who opened fireplace on Florida State College’s campus.
“The shooter is 20-year-old, Phoenix Ikner. And he is a son of a Leon County Sheriff deputy,” stated Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil.
The sheriff stated Ikner, a scholar at FSU, had entry to his mom’s weapons — one in every of which was discovered on the scene.
Criminologist and FSU graduate Alex Del Carmen stated legislation enforcement are beneath the identical guidelines as civilians relating to storing weapons.
“Sometimes, little children of legislation enforcement officers throughout the US develop up with weapons round their properties,” Del Carmen stated. “You develop up respecting weapons and also you develop up understanding that they’ll kill someone. So you realize, that is an especially uncommon case. That goes to indicate the general public that, you realize, violence doesn’t discriminate.”
The sheriff additionally stated Ikner was steep into the sheriff’s workplace, as a long-standing member of the Youth Advisory Council. Sheriff McNeil stated Ikner was engaged of their coaching packages.
“So it is not a shock to us that he had entry to weapons,” McNeil stated.
Del Carmen stated these particulars might play a task as officers seek for a motive.
“Whether or not he had short-term madness or no matter it’s that he will declare in a court docket of legislation. The underside line, although, is he is the one which had the motive, the intention and the potential of wounding different individuals on campus, and so he needs to be the one solely accountable for this incident,” Del Carmen stated. “It actually does goes to indicate the general public that folks in legislation enforcement are usually not immune from having these tragedies occur in their very own households.”
The criminologist credit FSU for its distinguished criminology program and talked about how a lot the campus has grown since he was there, making suggestions on safety.
“Sarcastically sufficient, after I was there, I used to be really a member of the safety power for the campus as a scholar consultant advising the administration on placing on these panic buttons round campus, you realize, and numerous different issues that we did to attempt to preserve the group secure,” Del Carmen stated. “You might have the specialists of specialists, you realize, instructing lessons about how one can be secure. The knowledgeable of specialists doing research on campus, and all of that stated, it exhibits you that it by no means prevents one thing like this from occurring.”
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