A student at Florida State University recalled the terrifying moment. Mass shooting.
Jeffrey Lafray He told Good Morning America The shots exploded when he and other fast -thought students began to frantically chew a gum after the teacher realized that they had no warning tape to ensure sheets of paper on the windows to block the view of the gun man in the classroom.
“I listen to pop pop pop,” he said during Friday’s interview.
“The teacher was asking if any of us had adhesive tape to record some paper. And no one had adhesive tape and, therefore, some of us, we just got out of gum and we started chewing to be able to paste some paper to the windows.”
The shooter, identified by the police as Phoenix IknerA 20 -year -old FSU student who is the son of a deputy from the Sheriff of Leon County, Killed two people And he wounded five Thers when he opened fire on the Tallahassee campus with the old service weapon of his stepmother on Thursday afternoon.
He Begen mortal ramp Near the Building of the Campus Student Union, with heartbreaking images at the time the gunman walked through the area wishing multiple slugs.
Graduated student, Madison Askins, 23, walked with a friend near the study of Estudi shot in the buttocks Behind, and then fell to the ground, he kept his eyes closed and played dead.
“I released all the muscles of my body, closed my eyes and the hero in my breathing. And I would breathe short when I needed it,” she, ” He told ABC News.
“I know with certainty that if I moved, I would shoot again,” said Askins, adding that Shera heard the killer recharge his gun and murmur, “keep running” the axis Scattered students.
The first to respond strongly armed converged in the area and faced the gunman, who, according to the officers, refused to fulfill the orders before the police shot him.
Ikner was among the treaties in a local hospital and is expected to survive.
Two Aramark employees – Tiru Chabba45, and Robert Morales were identified as the two victims killed in the deadly attack.
A reason behind the fatal shooting has not been revealed.
