South Florida native among victims in Florida State University shooting

TALLAHASSEE Fla AP Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University sending students fleeing from the pupil union and putting the Tallahassee Florida campus under lockdown Administration have identified the shooter as Phoenix Ikner a -year-old Florida State learner who is the son of a sheriff s deputy He began firing with his mother s former facility weapon before he was shot and wounded by officers when he refused to comply with commands investigators stated Agents have not yet revealed a motive for the shooting which began around lunchtime Thursday just outside the attendee union Administrators have also not identified the casualties though family members have disclosed that university employee Robert Morales was one of those who were killed Here is what we know about Morales Robert Morales Robert Morales was a university dining coordinator who had worked at Florida State since according to his LinkedIn profile Nowadays we lost my younger Brother he was one of the sufferers killed at FSU Ricardo Morales Jr posted on social media late Thursday He loved his job at FSU and his beautiful Wife and Daughter I m glad you were in my life Morales had studied criminology at the school in the early s according to the LinkedIn profile The profile also noted he was CEO of Black Bean Food Group though state records show that the business was dissolved a decade ago The Morales brothers father Ricardo Morales was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative in South Florida with the nickname Monkey Ricardo Morales Jr describes his father s work as a contract agent for the CIA in the forthcoming book Monkey Morales The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile Assassin CIA Operative FBI Informant Smuggler and Dad which is expected to be published later this year Dubbed The Monkey for his disruptive and unpredictable escapades Morales grabbed headlines for decades as tales of his bombings arrests assassination attempts both those he executed and those he suffered and testimony constructed a real-life spy adventure unlike anything brought to page or screen reads promotional material from publisher Simon Schuster The elder Morales was fatally shot in a bar brawl in at the age of