A deputy sheriff’s son killed two people and wounded four others at Florida State University on Thursday before he was shot by officers and hospitalized, authorities said.
Police believe the gunman – the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy – acted alone and a motive was not known.
The suspect had access to his mother’s handgun, which was once her service weapon. She bought it from the department and it is now a personal firearm, they said.
“Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons that was found at the scene,” Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil said at the press conference.
The 20-year-old suspect – identified as Phoenix Ikner – was believed to be a student at FSU in the state capital of Tallahassee, said Jason Trumbower, chief of the university’s police force.
The two people who were killed were not students. Trumbower did not provide details on the four others who were shot and wounded.
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