Students on FSU campus are exiting an area near the student union with their hands above their head.

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Tracy Haynes, Jr. turned himself in after shooting 4 in a high school mass shooting in South Dallas.

No one was fatally wounded.

Another active school shooter incident is in the books.

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US Marshals helping evacuate FSU campus

12:58 p.m. – U.S. Marshals with what appeared to be automatic weapons asked students gathered near West Call and Dewey streets to disperse because other students were still being led from the campus' student union.

"So many people in that building right now, so many to get out," a marshal was overheard saying.
Students, staff, other huddled around campus

12:51 p.m. – The Democrat's Alicia Devine is on the FSU campus.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/04/17/active-shooter-reported-at-fsu-shelter-in-place-alert-sent-out/83139928007/

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Suspect in custody

1:05 p.m. – A Tallahassee police spokesperson confirmed that one person is in custody but could not confirm any deaths. There were, however, "multiple injuries."

on the next plane to E;l Salvador. No need for trial or all that legal claptrap.

have seen multiple injured being loaded into ambulances outside the Student Union. One man was shackled by law enforcement before being taken from the scene.

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It’s surrounded on three sides by dangerous parts of town where shootings happen on a weekly basis. I wonder if this is spillover from those neighborhoods or a student or some individual actually targeting people there.

is pushing bills to further loosen gun laws in this benighted state, including allowing guns on college campuses.

Florida governor offers prayers for victims

1:43 p.m. – The governor wrote on X, "Our prayers are with our FSU family and state law enforcement is actively responding."

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because people under a lot of stress, real and potential, tend to do a lot of stupid things.

About the only thing I can think of that will start some serious action on gun control is the spectacle of black folks, brown folks, and lefties amassing arsenals and starting militias. Armed POC and lefties would scare the crap out of rich men and that would cause them to rethink the whole pro gun thing.

Don't know if his mother is the deputy?

It was her former county service weapon that had been retired and she purchased to keep for herself.

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FSU shooting latest: 2 dead; 20-year-old suspect is son of local sheriff's deputy
The suspect had access to one of his mother's weapons, the sheriff said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/active-shooter-reported-florida-state-university-fsu-alert/story?id=120911309

By Emily Shapiro, Aaron Katersky, Pierre Thomas, and Josh Margolin
April 17, 2025, 3:59 PM

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The son of a local sheriff's deputy allegedly opened fire near the Student Union at Florida State University in Tallahassee on Thursday, killing two people and injuring six others, authorities said.

The suspect -- 20-year-old Pheonix Ikner, a current FSU student -- was shot by responders and has been hospitalized, police said. He was taken into custody with non-life-threatening injuries, multiple law enforcement officials told ABC News.

Ikner is the son of a current Leon County sheriff's deputy, according to Sheriff Walter McNeil. He had access to one of his mother's personal weapons, which was one of the weapons found at the scene, the sheriff said. It appeared Ikner had a handgun and a shotgun with him, police said.
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The suspect's mother has been a deputy with the department for more than 18 years and "her service to this community has been exceptional," McNeil said.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said it's received six patients, all in fair condition.