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Tallahassee, Florida – 18 April 2025
1. Podium, band and choir at the vigil
2. Crowd at the vigil
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard McCullough, President of Florida State University:
"We grieve with our families, friends, and the loved ones of those that were lost and injured. We extend our deepest sympathies. We’re standing with them and doing everything we can to support them. We’re also thinking of you, our students, faculty, staff, who were nearby, who saw or heard things that no one should ever have to witness."
4. Crowd
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard McCullough, President of Florida State University:
"This kind of tragedy that shouldn’t happen, not here, not anywhere. We are heartbroken. Two people lost their lives. Six more were injured."
6. Moment of silence during the vigil
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard McCullough, President of Florida State University:
"All of those injured are expected to make a full recovery. Two of them will be released today."
8. Pan of crowd
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard McCullough, President of Florida State University:
"We’ll find a way forward. We will never forget what happened. We will never forget the people that we lost. But we will honor them not by mourning, but by continuing to be strong. Florida State strong."
10. Jay Winters, President of the Interfaith Council of Florida State University addressing crowd
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyle Clark, Vice President of Florida State University:
"These two individuals were more than just names. They were deeply loved, and their absences leave a void that cannot be filled. Their lives matter and they always will. Their impact continues through the memories we cherish, the stories we share, and the love that remains."
12. Crowd applauding, vigil ending
13. Various of choir, band, performing
14. Crowd at end of vigil
STORYLINE:
Several thousand students, staff and faculty packed a plaza at Florida State University for a vigil Friday evening, bowing their heads in a moment of silence honoring the two people who were killed and six others who were wounded in a shooting rampage the previous day.
The gunman, identified as the son of a sheriff’s deputy, arrived on campus an hour before the shooting Thursday and stayed near a parking garage before he walked in and out of buildings and green spaces while firing a handgun just before lunchtime, police said.
In roughly four minutes, officers confronted 20-year-old son Phoenix Ikner, a Florida State student, and shot and wounded him, Tallahassee police said.
Police have said five others were shot, and another person was hurt running away.
Classes were canceled Friday, but some students came to campus to retrieve backpacks and laptops they left behind when they barricaded classroom doors and eventually fled to safety.
Police believe Ikner used a former service weapon that belongs to his mother, an 18-year veteran of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Walt McNeil said.
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