FSU shooting 2025
FSU lifts mandatory attendance following student uproar over ‘insensitive’ order requiring return to campus just days after deadly shooting
"It is not okay to be asking students, who just experienced such a traumatic moment, to return right back to where it happened so soon," the petition, which garnered 1,408...
FSU student recalls trauma of losing sister in Parkland massacre after latest shooting at his college
Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was killed in Parkland, said: "I don’t understand how anyone could be surprised" by another school shooting "if we haven’t done anything to stop...
FSU shooting suspect's sheriff deputy stepmom taught him how to handle guns: official
Phoenix Ikner used at least one of his stepmother's firearms during the FSU massacre.
Alleged FSU gunman's biological mom breaks silence about deadly shooting
Eriksen, who also lives in Tallahassee, claims she has not talked with her son in several years.
Grandma of alleged FSU gunman goes scorched earth on his parents after deadly campus shooting
"The rotten bastard people. I have no idea what we're going to do now, I have no idea."
FSU student recalls frantically 'chewing' gum to help cover classroom windows as gunfire rang out during fatal shooting
"We just got out gum and started chewing so we could stick some paper to the windows."
Student who survived both FSU and Parkland shootings describes rushing peers to safety
Florida State University student Stephanie Horowitz helped guide her peers to safety during the deadly school shooting — using skills she learned from surviving the harrowing Parkland massacre more than seven...
Victim killed in FSU shooting identified as dad of two, Aramark employee
A second victim killed in the Florida State University shooting was identified Friday as a campus vending worker and “loving father” of two children
FSU gunman was kidnapped by his mother | Reporter Replay
The biological mother of accused Florida State University shooter Phoenix Ikner kidnapped him and fled to Norway amid a bitter custody battle a decade before the deadly shooting, court documents...
FSU student recounts 'sick and twisted' shooting — and how she survived
"My first instinct was to find cover and hide." Florida State University student and teacher Sophia Ziemer was on campus on Apr. 17 when gunshots rang out in a mass...
Heartbroken FSU students mourn victims of deadly campus shooting
By Friday morning, memorials of candles and flowers dotted the campus, and students and professors began returning to retrieve their belongings.
Video of suspected FSU shooter firing gun on campus
Terrifying footage taken during the chaos of the Florida State University Tallahassee shooting shows a gunman marching up and down a campus green and firing a weapon at fleeing students...
Food services company employee ID'd as one of the victims killed in FSU mass shooting
An employee for food services company Aramark has been identified as one of the two victims who were killed in Thursday’s Florida State University shooting.
Suspected FSU shooter promoted white supremacist views, spewed racist vitriol against black people: report
Florida State University shooter Phoenix Ikner touted vile white supremacist views that raised serious concerns among his classmates -- including that "Rosa Parks was in the wrong" and that black...
Suspected FSU shooter seen in terrifying video firing away on campus as bystanders flee
The shooter appeared to be armed with a handgun, which rang out with rapid shots as screaming students ducked for cover, the video circulating on social media shows.
Alleged FSU shooter ID'd as 20-year-old student, son of sheriff's deputy with access to her firearm
The man who allegedly shot two people dead and injured five more at Florida State University in Tallahassee is the son of a Leon county sheriff’s deputy – and used...
FSU shooter brandished rifle, then pistol, out of orange Hummer, shot woman 'right in front of him': student witness
Incredulous witnesses to the Florida State University shooting said the gunman first fired a rifle before returning to his orange Hummer to grab and pistol and shoot a woman
Some students at FSU shooting are Parkland massacre survivors, victim’s dad says: ‘America is broken’
A father whose child was murdered in the Parkland High School shooting revealed that several of his daughter’s surviving classmates were at Florida State University when a gunman opened fire...
Shooter opens fire on FSU student union, leaving at least 2 dead, as heavily-armed officers rush to scene
The school’s emergency alert system blasted out a warning just after noon urging students to seek shelter after the apparent shooter was reported near the campus’ Student Union area.