TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Classes volition resume astatine Florida State University connected Monday, 4 days aft a deadly shooting connected field near 2 radical dormant and six others injured, schoolhouse officials said.
Students and instructors volition person the enactment of holding classes remotely oregon successful person, depending connected the class. The schoolhouse has waived each mandatory attendance policies that could impact grades, truthful students won't beryllium punished if they take not to spell to people successful person, FSU President Richard McCullough said successful a missive to students and faculty.
Students besides tin petition an incomplete people for their people if they consciousness they are incapable to implicit a course, McCullough said.
“We privation everyone to person the enactment and assistance they need. For immoderate students that whitethorn mean not going backmost into the classroom,” McCullough said. “For others, the thought of assemblage and gathering, arsenic good arsenic the accidental to absorption connected academics, whitethorn beryllium beneficial. There is nary azygous close reply for everyone.”
The gunman, identified arsenic the stepson of a sheriff’s deputy, arrived connected field an hr earlier the shooting Thursday and stayed adjacent a parking store earlier helium walked successful and retired of buildings and greenish spaces portion firing a handgun conscionable earlier lunchtime, constabulary said.
In astir 4 minutes, officers confronted 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a Florida State student, and changeable and wounded him, Tallahassee constabulary said.
The 2 victims who died were Robert Morales, a assemblage eating coordinator, and Tiru Chabba, an enforcement for nutrient work vendor Aramark, according to household members and attorneys for the families.