Two people have died and at least six others injured after a gunman opened fire at Florida State University.
Police say a 20-year-old suspect was shot and wounded before being taken into custody on Thursday.
Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil says the suspect is the son of a deputy within his department, and that her former service weapon was used in the shooting and was found at the scene.
Authorities have not yet revealed a motive for the shooting, which began around lunchtime outside the student union, sending students and frightened parents hiding for cover in a bowling alley and a freight lift inside the building.
Ryan Cedergren, a 21-year-old communications student, said he and about 30 others hid in the bowling alley in the union’s lower level after seeing students running from a nearby bar.
“In that moment, it was survival,” he said.
Chris Pento said he and his twins were getting lunch at the student union during a campus tour when they heard gunshots. “It was surreal. And people just started running,” he told WCTV in Tallahassee.
After Florida State’s alert system announced later that law enforcement had “neutralized the threat,” the campus lockdown was lifted by midafternoon.
Florida State University is one of Florida’s 12 public universities, with its main campus in Tallahassee. All classes and events at the university were cancelled on Thursday.
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