The defendant’s biological mother Florida State University Shooter, Phoenix Ikner, kidnapped him and fled to Norway in the middle of a bitter battle of custody a decade before the mortal shooting, judicial documents reveal.
Anne-Mari Eriksen took her 11-year-old son to the Scandinavian nation in March 2015 in violation of the custody agreement she had with Christopher Ikner, after telling the father that she took him south of Florida for spring holidays, according to a sworn statement of probable cause of the Sheriff’s office of Leon’s county.
Eriksen and Phoenix Ikner, who at that time went through their birth name Christian Gunnar Eriksen, both have American and Norwegian citizenship.
“Instead of staying in southern Florida, the defendant allegedly fled the country with him in violation of his custody agreement,” the sworn statement was presented.
Christopher Ikner only discovered that his son had kidnapped on his legs when the 11 -year -old shed the duration of a phone call with his father.
Eriksen, who had custody rights, but the agreement stipulated that he could not take it out of the country without advanced notifications, said Shebold returned to the child to the United States and his father on March 27, but could not do it, according to the affidavit.
Christopher Ikner then quickly worried and alerted the authorities, saying that his son “has delays in development and special needs”, which feared he would not take care of without access to his usual doctors.
The affidavit said that Phoenix Ikner was “taking medications for several health and mental problems, include a hormonal growth and ADHD disorder.”
The mother did not return to the United States until July 27, 2015, when she was arrested at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. Later, he did not supplicate any contest to illegally eliminate a child from Florida.
Months later, in October 2015, Eriksen filed a lawsuit claiming slander and defamation against Christopher Ikner, his wife Jessica Ikner, as well as two other relatives.
“The emotional and psychological damage caused to the minor child will be evident for years, and will require advice, and since the child is the age of 11, he will have the memory affected by the behavior of all the defendants for the false statements made mother, and for the mother, and for the mother failure, and for the mother, and for the mother and for the mother, and for the mother, and for the mother, and for the mother.
Or the minor child, “said the demand.
Eriksen sought $ 80,000 in damages to use towards the university fund of the child.
Phoenix Ikner also appeared as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, which was dismissed Vally seven months later.
Christian Gunnar Eriksen changed his name to Phoenix Ikner in 2020.
The 20 -year -old is accused of opening fire on the Tallahassee campus, killing two people and hurting another five on Thursday afternoon.
The mortal uproar begged near the building of the Campus Student Union.
The terrifying video captured at the time an armed man walked through the area, shooting from a gun that is believed to be the old service weapon owned by his stepmother, Jessica Ikner.
The first to respond strongly armed converged in the area and faced the gunman.
The authorities say that Ikner did not comply with the commands and was shot before being tasks in police custody.
He was hospitalized for his wounds.
Before the identity of the gunmen was revealed to the public, Eriksen rant against Christopher and Jessica Ikner for not communicating with her with respect to her son’s whereabouts.
“Horrible when your alienating son’s father is as unstable mentally as he, along with his police wife Lcso, who cannot answer when you write to ask if everything is fine with my son, who studies in Fsue,” Eriksen For the Daily Mail.
“That familly family [sic] It is utilities. I should write a book about how parents, but cannot communicate, “Eriksen added.
“They sentence sorrow for everyone in FSU and their children.”
The two fatal victims, whose names were not revealed, were not students at school, said police chief Jason Trumbower.
The authorities have not revealed a reason behind the attack.
