The son of a sheriff’s deputy has been identified as the school shooter who killed two people and injured several more at the FSU campus with a gun he’d taken from his mom.
Phoenix Ikner, 20, can now be pictured after he was named as the mass shooter who terrorized Florida State University’s Tallahassee campus on Thursday afternoon – leaving two people dead and another six in hospital with varying injuries.
Officials said his mother is Leon County Sheriff’s Deputy Jessica Ikner, noting he had “access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene.”
In a chilling social media post which has now emerged, Ikner wrote: ‘you are my war club, my weapons for battle, with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms.’
The quote is a passage from the book of Jeremiah in the Bible, which warned of an impending judgement day.
He had also recently mocked students on campus protesting the result of the 2024 presidential election.
“These people are usually pretty entertaining, usually not for good reasons,” Ikner said in his school magazine, where he was described as a political science major.
“I think it’s a little too late, he’s [Trump] already going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there’s not really much you can do unless you outright revolt, and I don’t think anyone wants that.”