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Alleged FSU gunman Phoenix Ikner’s biological mom had been ‘concerned’ for son before deadly shooting
NY Post ^ | 04/19/2025 | Nicholas McEntyre

Posted on 04/19/2025 1:49:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Eriksen, lives in Tallahassee and is a Norwegian-American dual citizen, revealed she lost contact with Ikner following the bitter custody battle she had with her son’s father, Christopher Ikner.

The messy legal struggle culminated when Eriksen kidnapped Phoenix Ikner, who was born Christian Gunnar Eriksen, and flew him to Europe in March 2015.

Eriksen claimed she was taking her son to South Florida for spring break, but instead, the mother-son duo travelled to Norway

Phoenix Ikner is accused of using a handgun that belonged to his stepmother during the shooting.

Hours after the shooting, before Ikner was identified as the suspect, Eriksen took to Facebook to rail against her son’s father and stepmother for failing to communicate on her son’s condition.

“Horrible when your alienating son’s dad is as mentally unstable as he is, along with his LCSO cop wife, that they can’t respond when you write to ask if everything is alright with my son, who studies at FSU,” Eriksen wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post viewed by the Daily Mail.

“That whole familly [sic] is nuts. He should write a book on how to parent badly, but he can’t communicate,” Eriksen added.

“Feel sorry for everyone at FSU and their kids.”

Officials have not revealed a motive in the deadly rampage.

Ikner was a student at FSU, having enrolled in the classes at the school after transferring from Tallahassee State College, where he earned an associate’s degree last fall.


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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; florida; fsu; mentalhealth; redflaglaws
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1 posted on 04/19/2025 1:49:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

When did this dual citizenship bs start?


2 posted on 04/19/2025 1:51:22 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: BenLurkin

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4311778/posts

😊👍. Happy Easter.


3 posted on 04/19/2025 1:52:41 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

1967, Afroyim v. Rusk

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1966/456


4 posted on 04/19/2025 1:59:35 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: BenLurkin

Millions of kids are the victims of these extremely bitter custody proceedings. The parents duke it out for years, oblivious to the destruction of their children’s souls that it causes. In this case, who knows? She certainly should not have absconded to Europe with the kid, and sometimes courts bring down the hammer when a parent does that; that appears to be what happened here. Since this happened, the maternal grandmother has also gone off online. For all we know, they’re all nuts. Doesn’t absolve the kid from what he did, and I hope Florida goes for the death penalty, but I strongly suspect that there was more than one architect of the disaster that this kid’s mind became


5 posted on 04/19/2025 1:59:45 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Step parents are not the answer. They can help but the kid has to be a bit open minded too much for some.


6 posted on 04/19/2025 2:01:38 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BenLurkin

So, birth Mom is trying to find out if kid is OK or hurt because he’s a student there, and comes out to find out that the kid not OK, but is in fact the perp?


7 posted on 04/19/2025 2:04:21 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: BenLurkin

It appears that all parties involved played a role in shaping the environment that produced a violent sociopath.

Should the state decline to pursue capital punishment, it would be entirely appropriate, and arguably necessary for federal prosecutors to intervene and bring charges under statutes that permit the death penalty.


8 posted on 04/19/2025 2:06:07 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: BenLurkin

Wow. That sure is a lot of information in a short amount of time. And not a single “alleged” or “apparent”. Yet, we can’t get a straight up story on Abrego Garcia.


9 posted on 04/19/2025 2:12:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: BenLurkin
Oops. The "allegedly" is in the headline. 😬

What a dumbass. 🙄

10 posted on 04/19/2025 2:15:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Just so. In my legal career (I’m not insane. I don’t practice family law; just tangential contact) I don’t hear about the steps who are getting along great, because those never make it to court. What mystifies me is where you meet some body who is involved in one of these bitter disputes, and you jump right into the chaos by marrying them. No sane person should voluntarily opt in to such a situation


11 posted on 04/19/2025 2:15:56 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: BenLurkin

He was a leftist Trump hater. Expect this story to disappear. It does not fit the MSM narrative.


12 posted on 04/19/2025 2:22:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Yeah, She should have been concerned when her son changed his name to Phoenix.

Apparently, "Phoenix" used his stepmother's service weapon. So much for "You don't need a gun because police will protect you."

13 posted on 04/19/2025 2:29:11 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

His stepmother looks like she needs to do a whole lot more stepping.


14 posted on 04/19/2025 2:34:00 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: MtnClimber; All

Suspected FSU shooter promoted ‘white supremacist’ views, spewed racist vitriol against black people: report
By Patrick Reilly
Published April 18, 2025, 6:55 a.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/fsu-shooter-phoenix-ikner-allegedly-promoted-white-supremacist-views-spewed-racist-vitriol-against-black-people-report/


15 posted on 04/19/2025 2:53:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Screen capture was taken before the story was taken down.

16 posted on 04/19/2025 3:11:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I saw that. I guess it could be read as anti-Trump if that’s what we’re looking for.


17 posted on 04/19/2025 3:36:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Antihero101607
Suzanne Somers, she ain’t.


18 posted on 04/19/2025 4:37:47 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: BenLurkin

Has the FBI announced that he was on their radar yet?


19 posted on 04/19/2025 4:47:46 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: MtnClimber

What story? :)


20 posted on 04/19/2025 5:44:36 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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