The 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy opened fire Thursday at Tallahassee’s Florida State University with his mother’s former service weapon, killing two people and wounding at least six others, investigators said.
Officers who arrived on the scene shot and wounded the man after he refused to comply with commands, said Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell.
Authorities have not yet indicated if they have determined a motive for the shooting, which began around lunchtime just outside the student union, sending students and frightened parents running for cover in a bowling alley and a freight elevator inside the building.
The suspect, identified by police as Phoenix Ikner, is believed to be a Florida State student, investigators said.
The two people who died were not students at the university, said Jason Trumbower, chief of the Florida State University police department, adding that he would not release additional information about the victims.
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