Two people were killed an six more were injured during the mass shooting that took place Thursday at Florida State University. As I described here, the shooter was stopped in the act and sent to the hospital by police. It sounds like he’s going to survive. He was later identified as Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old student at FSU. His mother was also identified as a local sheriff’s deputy. Ikner used one of her handguns in the attack.
However, today we’ve got a lot more information about Ikner and his history and what it shows is a lot of family problems, including more than a decade of court battles between his parents, his mother fleeing the country with him and Ikner changing his name. Plus there’s also a mention of his right-wing politics which we’ll get to in a moment.
His birth name was Christian Gunnar Eriksen. His birth mother Anne-Mari Eriksen is originally from Norway and is not a deputy in Florida . The day her son was identified as the shooter, she wrote an angry post on Facebook.
‘Horrible when your alienating son’s dad is as mentally unstable as he is, along with his LCSO cop wife, that they can’t respond when you write to ask if everything is…
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