The students recalled The horrible minutes when a The active shooter opened fire Around noon on Thursday at the Campus of the State University of Florida in Tallahassee, killing two and hurting another six.
Some of these scoring reactions were captured in videos published on social networks.
He Alleged armed man He has been identified as Phoenix Ikner, 20, a FSU student who is the son of an attached sheriff of Leon County, according to the Sheriff of Leon County, Walter McNeil. It was an introduction of tasks after being triggered and injured by the police.
The shooting was reported in the area near the union of students around 12:01 pm, said FSU. In a video, people were running for Tennessee Street to get away from the shots.
Another video, captured by Stefano Mussi, shows students to be escorted from the Leach Student Recreation Center after the shooting. They had been locking there for about two hours.
The FSU student, Blake Leonard, described when he heard “shot about 12 shots” while walking in that area of the campus, followed by 15 other shots while escaping.
“I initially thought it was a construction or something, but on the back of my head, I thought:” Those are shots “, because the shots could be heard and then the impact of the bullets,” Leonard said.
FSU’s first year student Ann Akabanasiak, told the CBS WCTV affiliate that he was walking towards the campus after parking his car when he met a group of girls who left the union of students who were crying. They told him they had heard shots.
Some of his friends were locked in the campus in the middle of the active situation of the shooter.
“[I] He sent them a text message. They said they are scared. They are locking and they just want to go home, “Akabanasiak said.
A father touring the FSU campus with his daughters felt lucky to have survived.
“God was watching us,” he said, his daughter was trampled while people tried to run to a safe place when the shots resonated.
@cbsnews “God was watching us.” A father who was touring the FSU campus with his daughters says that his daughter was trampled while people ran to a safe place after hearing the shots. He says that the family, along with several ethers, managed to escape in a service elevator and take refuge in a church on the other side of the street. #FSU #News #Florida
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The experience brought even more trauma for several students who survived the massive shooting of 2018 in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and now attend FSU. Fourteen people were killed in the shooting at the parks school.
Said President Trump The FSU shooting was “terrible” and a “shame”, but when asked if he wanted to see any change in weapons, he touched journalists, he has “a link to protect the second amendment.”
“These things are terrible, but the weapon is not the shooting, people do,” he said.