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A shooting at Florida State Universityin Tallahassee -state capital -leaves two dead people on Thursday and seven more wounds that were transferred to hospitals, including the shooteraccording to the authorities.
At a press conference, Tallahassee police confirmed that two people died in the shooting and that fatalities They would not be students of the university. Likewise, the institution said that six more people were injured.
Phoenix Ikner, A 20 -year -old student at the University was identified as the alleged shooter. The young man is injured in a hospital, after facing the authorities.
The university, which It has more than 40,000 studentsissued an active shooter alert, after noon this Thursday (12:02 EST / 16:02 GMT), with which activated the response team in these cases. Three and a half hours after the academic institution declared the campus as insurance.
The dead are already wounded by a shooting at Florida State University
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Social networks images showed armed agents looking for the shooter in university buildings. The authorities created a code for students locked in the classrooms to report that they were sure.
In a phone call to NBC News, Daniella Streety, a student of the University, said: “I saw how they took a student in what looked like a stretcher and kept him on the street until an ambulance could pick it up ”.
“Just in front of me there are A building about 15 meters from the window … There was also an injured student there and they had to transport it in a desk chair to the street and then be transferred in ambulance, ”added the student.
The US president, Donald Trump, told reporters in the oval office that the shooting “is a shame and it is horrible that this kind of thing will happen.”
United States President Donald Trump
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For his part, the governor of Florida, Republican Ron Desantis, warned – in a message in X – that the authorities were responding “actively” to the situation and that prayed for the victims.
For its part, The president of the Florida Representatives ChamberDaniel Pérez, described the incident as “terrifying and the worst nightmare of any father.” All León County Schools and Collegeswhere the state capital is located, they are closed for this day, according to school authorities.
