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Phoenix Ikner

Phoenix Ikner (18 August 2004-), born Christian Gunnar Eriksen, was a Norwegian-American neo-Nazi who, on 17 April 2025, killed 2 people and injured 6 others in a terrorist attack at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Raised in a volatile family environment, and once kidnapped by his mother and taken to Oslo, he became involved in the Tallahassee sheriff's office's Youth Advisory Council; his stepmother was a longtime deputy. He developed white supremacist, Nazi, and homophobic views, and he was expelled from a political debate society for his extremist views. He advocated for Donald Trump's agenda, was fascinated with Nazism, and operated an online account called Schutzstaffel. On 17 April 2025, he murdered an Indian-American Aramark regional vice president and the Cuban-American campus dining director at his college, Florida State University, before being shot and arrested.