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Tallahassee reeling from FSU shooting: Two dead, six injured
Students recalled the horrifying minutes erstwhile an active shooter opened fire astir noon Thursday connected the Florida State University field successful Tallahassee, sidesplitting 2 and injuring six others.
Some of those searing reactions were captured successful videos posted connected societal media.
The alleged gunman has been identified arsenic 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, an FSU pupil who is the lad of a Leon County lawman sheriff, according to Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil. He was taken into custody aft being changeable and wounded by police.
The shooting was reported successful the country adjacent the pupil national astir 12:01 p.m., FSU said. In 1 video, radical were seen moving crossed Tennessee Street to get distant from the gunfire.
Another video, captured by Stefano Mussi, shows students being escorted retired of the Leach Student Recreation Center aft the shooting. They had been successful lockdown determination for astir 2 hours.
FSU pupil Blake Leonard described proceeding "about 12 shots spell off" arsenic helium was walking successful that country of the campus, followed by different 15 gunshots arsenic helium ran away.
"I initially thought it was operation oregon something, but successful the backmost of my head, I was like, 'those are gunshots,' due to the fact that you could perceive the shots and past perceive the interaction of the bullets," Leonard said.
FSU freshman Ann Akabanasiak told CBS affiliate WCTV she was walking to the field aft parking her car erstwhile she came crossed a radical of girls leaving the pupil national who were crying. They told her they had heard gunshots.
Some of her friends were successful lockdown connected the field amid the progressive shooter situation.
"[I] texted them. They said they're scared. They're successful lockdown and they conscionable privation to spell home," Akabanasiak said.
A begetter touring FSU's field with his daughters felt fortunate to person survived.
"God was watching implicit us," helium said, noting his girl was trampled arsenic radical tried to tally to information erstwhile gunshots echoed.
"God was watching implicit us." A begetter who was touring FSU's field with his daughters says his girl was trampled portion radical were moving to information aft proceeding gunshots ringing out. He says his family, on with respective others, managed to flight connected a work elevator and took structure successful a religion crossed the street. #fsu #news #florida
♬ archetypal dependable - cbsnewsThe acquisition brought adjacent much trauma for a fig of students who survived the 2018 wide shooting astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland, Florida, and are present attending FSU. Fourteen radical were killed successful the Parkland schoolhouse shooting.
President Trump said the shooting astatine FSU was "terrible" and a "shame," but erstwhile asked if helium wanted to spot immoderate changes to weapon laws, helium told reporters helium has "an work to support the Second Amendment."
"These things are terrible, but the weapon doesn't bash the shooting, the radical do," helium said.
Doug Myers is simply a integer contented shaper for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for 4 newspapers successful Texas and Louisiana and for 3 tv stations successful Texas. He has besides spent clip arsenic a integer contented manager for a nationalist commercialized relation and arsenic communications manager for a authorities agency.
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