FSU Shooting: Phoenix Ikner Identified as Gunman in Deadly Campus Attack

Описание: Nearly a decade before the Florida State University shooting, Phoenix Ikner—then known as Christian Gunnar Eriksen, was at the center of an intense international custody battle. In 2015, his biological mother, Anne-Mari Eriksen, kidnapped him from Florida and fled to Norway in violation of a custody agreement with his father, Christopher Ikner. Court records reveal Eriksen misled the father, claiming they were going to South Florida for spring break. It wasn’t until a phone call from the then 11-year-old boy that Christopher discovered his son had been taken overseas.

Eriksen, who held dual U.S. and Norwegian citizenship, was arrested upon her return months later and pleaded no contest to the charges. A subsequent lawsuit she filed against the Ikner family for slander and parental alienation was dismissed in 2016. Phoenix later changed his name in 2020.

Now 20, Ikner stands accused of a deadly rampage at FSU on April 17, 2025, which left two dead and five injured. Authorities say he used his stepmother’s old service weapon during the attack. The motive remains unclear, but the complex family history, including custody disputes, legal trauma, and emotional strain, has resurfaced in light of the shooting.

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