Florida State cancels multiple sporting events after on-campus shooting

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Florida State University (FSU) told Fox News Digital it is canceling each sporting events done Sunday aft a wide shooting on-campus injured astatine slightest six people. 

"All Florida State athletics location events done Sunday, April 20, person been canceled," a connection read. "Further updates connected events scheduled for adjacent week volition beryllium communicated erstwhile available." 

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The cancellations volition see a three-game bid for the school's No. 7-ranked shot squad against Virginia starting Thursday, and the No. 4 softball team's last location bid of the regular play against Georgia Tech, starting Friday.

The school's past 2 outpouring shot practices person been canceled arsenic well. 

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FSU has besides canceled each classes done Friday. 

University constabulary said they were responding to an "active scene" connected the Tallahassee field and were moving to "get it nether control." FSU aboriginal wrote connected X that instrumentality enforcement had "neutralized the threat," but said that parts of the field are inactive considered an "active transgression scene."

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A elder Florida instrumentality enforcement root told Fox News that astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic was successful custody, but could not corroborate if the idiosyncratic was a shooter. Additionally, the FBI's Jacksonville tract bureau and Tallahassee nonmigratory bureau agency are connected the scene.

Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf, Preston Mizell, David Spunt and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.

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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.

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