FSU shooting suspect's childhood included family kidnapping abroad, custody fight: docs

The biologic parent of Florida State University shooting fishy Phoenix Ikner allegedly kidnapped him successful 2015, erstwhile helium was 11, and traveled with him to Norway successful usurpation of a custody agreement, according to Leon County tribunal records.

The now-20-year-old FSU pupil is accused of opening occurrence connected field connected Thursday, sidesplitting 2 radical and injuring six others, 5 of whom sustained gunshot coiled injuries, and 1 of whom was injured portion moving from gunfire. They are presently being treated for their injuries.

His biologic mother, Anne-Mari Eriksen, told Ikner's begetter successful a March 2015 email that she was taking him to South Florida for outpouring break, but she "allegedly fled the state with him successful usurpation of their custody agreement," an affidavit filed by the Leon County Sheriff's Office says.

The affidavit besides states that Ikner — who was calved Christian Gunnar Eriksen earlier helium legally changed his sanction — has developmental delays and peculiar needs. His begetter feared helium would not person due attraction if taken extracurricular the United States.

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For respective days, Ikner's begetter had nary interaction with his lad until they yet connected via phone, and Phoenix told him that helium and Eriksen were successful Norway. As portion of Eriksen's custody statement with Phoenix's father, she had to springiness astatine slightest 14 days announcement to question with her lad extracurricular the country, which she seemingly failed to do, tribunal documents show.

While successful Norway, Ikner's begetter called and emailed Eriksen, who has dual U.S. and Norwegian citizenship, aggregate times asking erstwhile she would beryllium returning to the United States with their son, according to tribunal records.

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Police enactment the country of a shooting adjacent the pupil national astatine Florida State University connected April 17, 2025, successful Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images)

"The suspect refused to supply an reply and would circumvent the question by talking astir what she and [her son] had been doing portion successful Norway," the affidavit states.

The Leon County Sheriff's Office further alleged that by keeping Ikner successful Norway for an extended play of time, Eriksen kept her lad from completing scheduled investigating successful school, doctor's appointments and medicine protocols for Ikner's "several wellness and intelligence wellness issues," including ADHD and a maturation hormone disorder.

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A memorial for the victims of the Florida State University shooting was held connected April 17. (Pilar Arias for Fox News Digital)

"It became wide done these emails exchanged successful aboriginal April that the suspect had nary volition of returning Christian to Tallahassee, and she mentioned perchance moving to Miami astatine immoderate point," the affidavit reads.

That aforesaid year, successful August 2015, Eriksen filed a slander suit against Ikner's begetter and stepmother, Jessica Ikner, a lawman astatine the Leon County Sheriff's Office.

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Law enforcement officers enactment astatine Florida State University's field aft a wide shooting successful Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., April 17, 2025.  (Alicia Devine/USA Today Network via Imagn Images via Reuters)

"The affectional and intelligence harm done to the insignificant kid volition beryllium evident for years, and volition necessitate counseling, and fixed the kid being the property of 11, volition person representation impacted by the behaviors of each the defendants for the mendacious claims done connected his mother, and for the parental alienation of the adjacent narration of the insignificant child," the ailment filed successful Leon County states.

Eriksen requested $80,000 successful damages for Ikner's assemblage fund, arguing that helium was the unfortunate of intelligence and affectional abuse.

Eriksen could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

People evacuate Florida State University's field aft a wide shooting successful Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., April 17, 2025. (Alicia Devine/USA Today Network via Imagn Images via Reuters)

The 20-year-old shooting fishy was changeable and wounded by responding officers Thursday day aft helium refused to comply with commands, according to Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell. 

Police confirmed that his parent is simply a sheriff's lawman with the Leon County Sheriff's Office and that they judge Ikner changeable the victims utilizing his mother's erstwhile work handgun, which she had kept for idiosyncratic usage aft the unit upgraded to caller weapons. 

Evacuees ticker instrumentality enforcement enactment connected Florida State University's field aft a wide shooting successful Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., April 17, 2025. (Alicia Devine/USA Today Network via Imagn Images via Reuters)

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Jessica Ikner was a long-standing subordinate of the sheriff’s office’s younker advisory council, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said during a Thursday quality conference.

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

Fox News Digital's Greg Norman contributed to this report.