FSU shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner’s stepmother taught him how to handle guns: sheriff

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The fsu shooter begs Phoenix Ikner learned to handle the weapons of his attached Sheriff Madrastra, according to the Sheriff’s office where he works.

Ikner, 20, was arrested after he allegedly shot two people dead and wounded another six on the FSU Tallahassee campus. Video images showed it apparently pointing to random people while running from the shooter stalking the area around the school student union.

It was identified as the daughters of the deputy of the Sheriff’s Office of Leon County, Jessica Ikner.

Jessica Ikner is taking a permit for absence of her work due to what happened, Shonda Knight, spokesman for the Leon County Sheriff’s office, told Fox News Friday.


Jessica Ikner, in her police uniform, the attached sheriff of alleged fsu soist, Phoenix Iknerner
The fsu shooter begs Phoenix Ikner learned to handle the weapons of his attached Sheriff Madrastra, according to the Sheriff’s office where he works. Leon County Sheriff Office

Knight said Phoenix had learned to drive weapons as a result of Jessica Ikner was a police member.

“His family exhibited him to a safe place while heading to use firearms,” ​​Knight said.

Knight praised Jessica Ikner for having done a “tremendous work” as a deputy duration of his 18 years of service and said he would be taking an absence permit following the tragedy.

Phoenix Ikner was also a member of the Youth Advisory Council of the Sheriff’s office, authorities said Thursday.

Knight said Ikner belonged to a group designed to be an “opportunity for young people in our community to express any conerns that had the prevention and security of crime and any initiative, and so that we have young young people in Eath Yote.”


Phoenix Ikner, a 20 -year -old man suspended in the FSU shoe spree, taking a selfie on campus
Phoenix Ikner, 20, is the suspect of the FSU Shooting Spree Thorsday. Instagram / Phoenix Ikner

Leon’s County Sheriff, Walter McNeil, said Ikner “had access to the attached weapons of his sheriff, and” that was one of the weapons that was found on the scene. “

But later it was made that the weapon was not active duty for the application of the law, and Jessica Ikner had bought for her personal use after she received a driver gun from the Sheriff’s department. McNeil said the practice was common.

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