“Mass Shooting”

The Austrian school shooter who massacred 10 people at his former school on Tuesday killed his neighbour in the horrific attack, it has emerged.

Artur A., a 21-year-old from a suburb of Graz, was revealed to have shot and killed a young girl who lived nearby as further details emerged of his abandoned plans to carry out a bombing and messages left behind for family.

The former student of the school killed a teacher and nine pupils between the ages of 14 and 17 in Tuesday’s rampage in the city of Graz.

A mass shooting occurred in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia near Lemon Hill Drive, resulting in two deaths and at least nine injuries.
The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. during a car meetup. At least two of the victims were juveniles.
Police reported a large presence at the… pic.twitter.com/zM8Yl1YnKO

— T_CAS videos (@tecas2000) May 27, 2025

On Friday, I reported that the father of the Abundant Life Christian School shooter had been charged. That report was scant on details as to why he was charged specifically, only that he had been.

This may or may not be out of place in and of itself, but the idea of charging parents is troubling without a very good reason to do so.

When reports began circulating that an active shooter was on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Anne-Mari Eriksen was one of countless distressed parents trying to make contact with their loved ones at the school.

At this stage, she was desperate to find out if her son was okay, but as details emerged through a press conference on Thursday afternoon, a new nightmare emerged – her son was responsible for the carnage unfolding.

Phoenix Ikner, 20, was identified later by cops as the shooter, with authorities revealing he was the son of sheriff’s deputy Jessica Ikner and had used her weapon to kill two people and injure another six.

The son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy killed two people at Florida State University and wounded six others on Thursday after gaining access to his mother’s handgun and going on a campus rampage, police said. The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was shot by officers and taken into custody before being transported to the hospital, according to police. He is believed to be an FSU student. His mother was assigned by the sheriff’s office to protect a local public school.

#BREAKING: Police announce the shooter at Florida State University is the son of a Leon County Sheriff’s Deputy

He’s been identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, and used one of his mother’s weapons to commit the mass shooting at FSU.

HOLY CRAP. pic.twitter.com/mlkrQAQlvg

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 17, 2025

h/t DickFitzwell

One person is in custody and at least six people are wounded, one critically on Thursday after someone reportedly opened fire near Florida State University’s student union.

Police swarmed the university’s Tallahassee campus with guns drawn around noon. Students hid in classrooms. Some fled the area with hands in the air, leaving behind backpacks, food and even shoes. Tallahassee

Police spokesperson Alicia Hill confirmed to the Miami Herald that one person is in custody. She said there are multiple victims but could not confirm an exact number.

Info is sketchy with contradictory details on casualties.

#BREAKING UPDATE: At least 5 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Florida State University (FSU), per WFTV

Reports stating TWO SHOOTERS, with one in custody and the other dead.

The scene is STILL listed as an “active shooter situation.” It is unknown if there are other shooters. pic.twitter.com/QDjKZyG8IC

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 17, 2025

Eyewitness account from Florida State University student Max Jenkins pic.twitter.com/fKgFMBdkKD

— Alicia Devine (@alicia_c_devine) April 17, 2025

Twitter – Florida State

Update via CNN

• FSU shooting: At least six people were wounded in a mass shooting today at Florida State University in Tallahassee, according to a local hospital. One patient is in critical condition while the other five were described as serious.

• Suspect in custody: Police have taken at least one person into custody. Officers found a handgun on the suspect, as well as a shotgun in the school’s student union and another gun in the suspect’s car, according to a law enforcement official.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is apparently, an institution held hostage. Yesterday, the New York Post revealed that law enforcement had recently released new information about Audrey Hale’s mindset before she went on a shooting rampage against elementary-aged school children, coming from her own writings…

The transgender shooter in a mass killing in 2023 at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, was a school alumnus motivated by a quest for notoriety, a final police report concludes. Three children and three adults died in the attack before police shot the killer.

Nashville Police said that Audrey Hale, 28, left behind notebooks, art books, and documents about her plot to attack the Covenant School. Hale, a female, was in part inspired by the 1999 Columbine mass shooting, the report said.

You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, where I serve as president. In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

The mass shooter who murdered seven people at a July 4 parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park pleaded guilty to the killings on Monday.

Robert Crimo, 23, withdrew his earlier not-guilty plea in a Lake County circuit courtroom; he admitted to killing seven people and injuring dozens more when he opened fire on a 2022 Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb.

It was a stunning development moments before opening arguments in his trial on charges of murder and attempted murder.