FSU shooting: Location offers insight into gunman's motive

(NewsNation) — At slightest two radical are dead and six others injured aft a gunman opened occurrence astatine the pupil national gathering astatine Florida State University successful Tallahassee connected Thursday, officials said.

The 2 radical who are dormant are not students, authorities said during a Thursday property conference. No different accusation astir the victims was provided.

The alleged shooter, 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, is simply a existent pupil astatine the schoolhouse and the lad of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy, according to officials. He is successful constabulary custody and was besides injured aft refusing to obey commands from instrumentality enforcement.

Police said the limb utilized successful the shooting was the erstwhile work limb of the alleged shooter's mother.

The shooter's motive is inactive unclear, but erstwhile U.S. Marshal Art Roderick thinks the determination of the shooting, an country connected field wherever students congregate, suggests an intent to inflict wide damage.

"It's a people wherever you tin premix successful with a assemblage precise easily, and you've got a batch of radical that you tin really people to shoot," Roderick, erstwhile adjunct manager for investigations with the U.S. Marshals, said connected "NewsNation Now" connected Thursday.

"That's astir apt the information down this peculiar individual," Roderick continued.

Ryan Cedergren, a inferior astatine FSU, said helium was astatine the school’s pupil national gathering erstwhile helium saw radical running.

“Our contiguous thought was, ‘This isn’t right, thing is going on,” Cedergren said.

He sheltered successful the gathering with others and said helium understood wrong a infinitesimal that a shooting was occurring.

“You ne'er deliberation it’s going to hap to you until it does,” Cedergren said.

Another student, Christopher Malave, told NewsNation helium had conscionable finished luncheon and was astatine the pupil national erstwhile radical started flooding inside. Malave said helium ran and hid down immoderate bushes erstwhile helium heard gunfire.

"I started proceeding respective rounds of further gunshots," helium said. "It was a horrific situation."

This is simply a processing story.

Watch the afloat interrogation with Art Roderick successful the subordinate above.