I haven’t seen any information on the motive or the suspect–or even if there was more than the one suspect already arrested.
Freedom’s just another word for more lives to lose…
Yeah. The building I ended up hiding in is still locked down. I was on my lunch walk and heard the shots from the building.
Was very surreal as we were all running as fast and as far as we could.
Wow. I’m glad you’re okay.
Eventually was allowed to leave the building. took a while to find a way back to my car due to heavy officer presence who were cordoning off an area near the event.
I will say that FSU is very good at emergency response in getting out the message to shelter, although I’m only used to this for tornadoes in the past. The police response was immediate and aggressive. I heard sirens coming our way just as soon as I sprinted my first block away from the scene. At that point, campus went on lockdown and me and my group were taken in my the staff at one of the colleges.
I’m thankful for the professionalism of our local law enforcement as well as the kindness of the staff at the College of Music who gave us all shelter.
Two killed, six others injured. 
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368177/fsu-shooting-injures-multiple-people
Updated April 17, 2025 5:04 PM ET
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Shortly after 3 p.m., the university said, “Law enforcement has neutralized the threat.” Authorities also lifted the lockdown for most of the campus, except for nine buildings that are still an “active crime scene.”Authorities identified the alleged gunman as Phoenix Ikner, the son of a current and longtime Leon County deputy. Sheriff Walter McNeil says the 20-year-old suspect had access to one of the deputy’s personal handguns, and it was found at the scene along with a shotgun. The sheriff says the suspect, who was an FSU student, was well-known to the department and had participated in several training programs, including as a member of the department’s ‘youth advisory council’.
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Hmm. That’s a real bundle of budding controversy there.
Dude be whack. And now whacked. The rest is details.
@Theios, that’s the scariest thing I’ve read. I can’t picture the trauma of being there but know it’s life changing.
I think I might be broken. My friends and family are reaching out to me as if I must be traumatized having been that close to the shooting… but I honestly feel nothing. even as I was running, I just felt like… yeah. I guess this is happening now. why not
I would expect you to have a delayed reaction. You’re probably still in some kind of shock. If the school offers supportive counseling related to this, I strongly urge you to take advantage. And let your friends and family fuss over you for a while. Take care.
This was a Big Deal. Really.
Yes, this. Plus, there’s not a “right” or “normal” way to feel about this.
Just feel how you feel, there is no right or wrong response. How you feel is how you feel, it may change and that’s fine too.
ISTM a lot of people desperately want to make these events into life-altering traumatic experiences no matter how tangentially someone is involved.
You’re in a classroom hiding under a desk while a madman is standing in the door blazing away into the room, then he runs down the hall after killing half the class but by great good luck not you? Sure. Plenty of traumatic memory
/ nightmare fuel there.
You hear the sound of gunfire 3 blocks away and run a couple blocks the other way & go into some randomly selected building? Sounds like every Friday night in the 'hood.
I wasn’t there for this one, but it sounds like @Theios’s participation was closer to my second example than my first. In which case having little to no reaction is having IMO the right amount of reaction. The rest is performative anxiety-mongering. A habit to be scorned not encouraged.
You can tell from here what the “right amount of reaction” should be? Pretty impressive.
I have never lived in the 'hood. I’ve never heard a gunshot from a gun that was aimed at a human being.
NOTE: This didn’t start out as a Breaking News thread, but I see it now has that tag. Does that make both my and @LSLGuy’s comments out of line?
When the shooting started, I wasn’t sure where the gunman was, but I knew I was too close and needed to run.
Today I find out that the shooting started outside near where I was walking and I was definitely close enough to have been hit by a stray bullet. This freaked me out a little more.
Moderating:
Not only is this attacking the poster, in general, telling people their emotional reaction is “to be scorned” is being a jerk. Knock it off.
I’m not sure your (non) reaction suggests you are broken. I think that humans are generally capable of tolerating and overcoming considerable trauma and adversity. But different people respond differently. Some people seem relatively unphased by trauma they directly experienced. Others seem to have difficulty overcoming experiences which may seem considerably less traumatic - or which they only heard about.
I urge you to do what feels right to you. Don’t let others tell you how you ought to feel or act.
I’m glad you are well.
Thirded or fourthed. Good to know you were safe, Theios, and as others said, how you feel will likely vary as time progresses.
The one thing anyone can tell you for sure is that you’ll react the way you react. I hesitate to use the word “normal”, but reactions ranging the whole gamut from no reaction at all, to going full-on panic breakdown, are none of them particularly uncommon.
Some more info about the shooter, who seems to be a right wing extremist: