Florida State sports alumni Brooks Koepka, Jared Verse, others react to deadly campus shooting

The deadly field shooting astatine Florida State University Thursday shocked the nation. 

Several erstwhile prima Florida State athletes spoke retired successful enactment of chap Seminoles aft astatine slightest 2 were killed and astatine slightest six were injured. 

The grieving erstwhile FSU athletes included LIV Golf prima Brooks Koepka, reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Jared Verse and erstwhile Seminoles prima backmost and existent New York Jets backmost Jordan Travis. 

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The shooting began astatine astir 11:50 a.m. The 2 radical killed were not FSU students, according to authorities.

During a quality league Thursday afternoon, authorities identified the suspected shooter arsenic 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a pupil astatine the school. 

Ikner was transported to a infirmary aft being "neutralized" by authorities. Police besides said his parent is simply a sheriff's lawman with the Leon County Sheriff's Office, adding Ikner utilized his mother's limb successful the killing. 

FSU has canceled each classes done Friday and said diversion events successful Tallahassee were canceled done the weekend. 

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

FSU President Richard McCullough issued a connection connected X, calling the shooting "a tragic and senseless enactment of violence."

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 besides been canceled. 

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"There volition beryllium much updates successful the days up and much clip to bespeak and heal. But, now, we mourn together," the president said. "We thin connected 1 another. And we retrieve who we are. We are Florida State. We are family. And we basal together."

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

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