What we know about the victims of the FSU mass shooting

Two people died and six were injured on Thursday, duration of Mass shooting at Florida State UniversityStudent Union, officials said.

The alleged shooter, identified as a 20 -year -old FSU student Phoenix IknerHe was also injured by officers who responded and remained in the hospital.

All injured victims are in stable conditions and are expected to recover completely, said Tallahassee Memorial Hospital on Friday. Five victims were injured by shooting, while a sixth was an injury while fleeing the scene, police confirmed.

2 victims killed in FSU shots

The authorities have not published the names of any victim. However, family members have identified victims such as Robert Morales, a university dining room, and Tiru Chabba, a campus seller.

Tiru Chabba

Tiru Chabba, a 45 -year -old father’s father, was killed in the shooting, according to a law firm that represents the family.

Chabba was on the FSU campus on Thursday for his work as an employee or seller of the campus when the gunman opened fire, said lawyer Bakari Sellers of the Strom law firm in a statement on Friday afternoon.

Chabba survives his wife and two children.

“Tiru Chabba’s family is going through the unimagunous now,” Sellers said in a statement. “Instead of hiding Easter eggs and visiting friends and family, they are living a nightmare in which this loving father and a devout husband were stolen in an act of sensor and preventable violence.”

“We ask him to keep his family in his thoughts and prayers while we fight to ensure that they see justice that honors Mr. Chabba’s memories and all victims of Thursday’s shooting.”

Robert Morales

Robert Morales57, he was a long -term employee in the Department of Gastronomic Services of the University. His death was confirmed by his brother, Ricardo Morales Jr., in a publication on social networks on Thursday night.

“Today we lost my younger brother,” Hello. “He was one of the victims killed in FSU. He loved his work in FSU and his beautiful wife and daughter. I am slippery you were in my life.”

Ricardo Morales Jr. also confirmed his brother’s death to CBS News Miami.

According to the Miami Herald, Robert Morales attended a meeting with other university employees when the shooting broke out. He was also the son of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a controversial operational of the American Cuban CIA and the active cold militant war. The old Morales was killed in a bar fight in Miami in 1982.

While the university has not yet confirmed the names of the victims, Candle and flower memorials They have begun to appear throughout the campus and a The vigil is scheduled for 5 pm on Friday In Langford Green.

6 victims wounded, 5 hospitalized

The hospital staff tested an update on the duration of the conditions of the victims, a press conference on Friday and the letters explained how each patient needed to be treated by gunshot wounds. The staff said at that time that all patients were in stable condition, with one of them in fair conditions due to the scope of their injuries.

Five patients were victims, the sixth was the alleged shooter, police confirmed. A sixth victim was Kured as he fled the scene, but was not injured by shooting, police confirmed.

Madison Askins

In an interview from her hospital bed, the 23 -year -old graduate student of FSU, Madison Askins, told the terrifying moments that shot her during Thursday’s mortal attack on the campus.

“At the time they shot me, I remember that my parents tell me, I just need to play dead,” Askins told CBS News. “So I released all the muscles of my body, I closed my eyes, I hero my breath.

Askins was among the injured people in the shooting in the union of university students. She said the gunman was so close to her after she fell to the ground that she could hear her silencing for himself while recovering.

“I was calm,” he said. “[He] He literally said: “Yes, keep running.”

Help any lane arrived. Askins said that at the time a police officer begged his wounds, he knew that Shew had survived the sausage.

According to Dr. Brett Howard, trauma surgeon and leader of the surgery team, the hospital was notified about the shooting shortly before Thursday at noon and leadership and medical staff were immediately prepared for many victims who need to treat.

“The most difficult part of all is not knowing how many patients will obtain,” said TMH staff was very proactive with their communication systems and activated the necessary resources by bringing additional staff to prepare for the worst.

Howard said the hospital proximity to the University also helped with the quick response and immediate treatment, adding that the six patients were seen within an hour of admission. Hey, also stressed that the relationship between hospital staff, the application of the law and the first to respond also helped the process to be without problems.

Of the six patients, three were taken to the operating room for surgery, and two of them needed abdominal surgery and the third that needed facial surgery. The other patients also suffered gunshot wounds in their limbs, hospital staff said, but did not specify exactly what son of the injuries suffered.

A doctor also helped patients last the FSU 2014 Library shooting

Among the hospital staff who treated the victims, one of the doctors was able to talk about the comparison of the medical response between the Thorsday shooting and the FSU library a decade ago.

Dr. Shelby Blank, a general and breast surgeon who also received the shooting in 2014, said it was a “more limited feeling” compared to Thursday’s tragedy.

“Unfortunately, traumatic violence is something that happens, either in the course of a weekend compared to many tablets in a couple of hours,” he said.

Blank continued, saying that Thorsday’s shooting was “catastrophic.”

“Given the number of students in that compressed area, the disaster recipe is very afraid,” he said.