We have to snatch and detain students who write pro-Palestine op-eds in campus newspapers or who join protests, but a white supremacist shooter? He'll get due process.
I dare say, if he'd been brown-skinned, he'd be dead.Two people are dead and a sheriff's deputy's son is in custody after an active shooter was reported at Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee.
The suspect is the 20-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy who had access to one of her weapons, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said.
At least six people are being treated at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, a hospital spokesperson said.
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An FSU student who saw the shooter described him as a “normal college dude" who was wearing an orange T-shirt and khaki shorts. "I was walking, and this guy pulls up in an orange Hummer," the student said. "And he gets out with a rifle and shoots in my direction."
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Revell, the Tallahassee police chief, said of officers’ confrontation with the gunman that they “challenged him and they ended up shooting him. He did not comply with commands and was shot. I do not believe he fired at all.”
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The suspect remains in the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said tonight.
NBC
Ouch. Cobbler's children, and all that.The shooter was identified by police as Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old whose stepmother is a Leon County sheriff's deputy who has worked with the department for over 18 years. Authorities said a former service weapon that belonged to her was recovered at the scene.
Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil said Ikner was a long-standing member of the Sheriff's Office Youth Advisory Council.
Yahoo
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