Who is the FSU shooter? Son of deputy identified as suspect in deadly shooting

The suspect in Thursday s shooting at Florida State University which left two people dead and several others injured is the -year-old son of a longtime sheriff s deputy personnel reported Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil identified the suspect as Phoenix Ikner who is also supposed to be a current FSU novice The alleged shooter was also a long-standing member of the Leon County Sheriff s Office citizen advisory or youth advisory council McNeil explained So he has been steeped in the Leon County Sheriff s Office family engaged in a number of training programs that we have McNeil did not name the suspect s parent but declared she has been in the department for over years and that her arrangement to the region has been exceptional Police disclosed they held the suspect shot the casualties using his mother s former institution handgun Unfortunately her son had access to one of her weapons and that was one of the weapons that was determined at the scene he explained Officers swiftly arrived and shot and wounded the shooter after he refused to comply with commands noted Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell This event is tragic in more means than you people can fathom from a law enforcement perspective McNeil noted 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 explained NBC News that he espoused white supremacist views and was explained 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 declared multiple 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 advised NBC News Another former member of the club described NBC News they were a bit shocked finding out Ikner was the suspect He was pretty normal he was nice Nicholas Lobo reported The Associated Press contributed to this story Follow along here for live updates