The suspect in Thursday's shooting at Florida State University, , is the 20-year-old son of a longtime sheriff's deputy, officials said.
Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil identified the suspect as Phoenix Ikner, who is also believed to be a current FSU student.
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WATCH HERE"The alleged shooter was also a long-standing member of the Leon County Sheriff's Office citizen advisory, or youth advisory council," McNeil said. "So he has been steeped in the Leon County Sheriff's Office family, engaged in a number of training programs that we have."
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SIGN UP McNeil did not name the suspect's parent, but said she has been in the department for over 18 years and that her service to the community has been "exceptional." Police said they believed the suspect shot the victims using his mother's former service handgun.
"Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene," he said.
Officers quickly arrived and shot and wounded the shooter after he refused to comply with commands, said Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell.
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"This event is tragic in more ways than you people can fathom from a law enforcement perspective," McNeil said. "But I will tell you this: We will make sure that we do everything we can to prosecute and make sure that we send a message to folks that this will not be tolerated here in Leon County, and I dare say across the state and across this nation."
Several students who knew the suspect told 온라인카지노사이트 News that he espoused white supremacist views and was told at one point to leave a political club because he made other people uncomfortable.
Riley Pusins, the current president of the political discourse club at Tallahassee State College – where the suspect attended before transferring to FSU – said many of the members called the suspect a fascist.
"Basically our only rule was no Nazis — colloquially speaking — and he espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric, and far-right rhetoric as well, to the point where we had to exercise that role," Reid Seybold, who was once a part of the club before transferring to FSU, told 온라인카지노사이트 News.
Another former member of the club told 온라인카지노사이트 News they were "a bit shocked" finding out Ikner was the suspect.
“He was pretty normal; he was nice,” Nicholas Lobo said.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
