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The biologic parent of accused Florida State University shooter, Phoenix Ikner, kidnapped him and fled to Norway amid a bitter custody conflict a decennary earlier the deadly shooting, tribunal documents reveal.
Anne-Mari Eriksen took her past 11-year-old lad to the Scandinavian federation successful March 2015 successful usurpation of the custody statement she had with Christopher Ikner — aft telling the begetter she was taking him to South Florida for outpouring break, according to a probable origin affidavit from the Leon County Sheriff’s Office viewed by The Post.
Eriksen and Phoenix Ikner — who astatine the clip went by his commencement sanction Christian Gunnar Eriksen — some person American and Norwegian citizenship.
“Instead of staying successful South Florida, the suspect allegedly fled the state with him successful usurpation of their custody agreement,” the affidavit stated.
Christopher Ikner lone discovered his lad had been kidnapped erstwhile the 11-year-old spilled the beans during a telephone telephone with his dad.
Eriksen — who had custody rights but the statement stipulated she whitethorn not instrumentality him from the state without precocious notification — said she would instrumentality the lad to the US and his dada connected March 27, but failed to bash so, according to the affidavit.
Christopher Ikner past rapidly became disquieted and alerted authorities, saying his lad “has developmental delays and peculiar needs,” which helium feared would not beryllium taken attraction of without entree to his regular doctors.
The affidavit said Phoenix Ikner was “on medicine for respective wellness and intelligence issues, to see a maturation hormone upset and ADHD.”
The ma didn’t instrumentality to the US until July 27, 2015, erstwhile she was arrested astatine Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. She aboriginal pleaded nary contention to illegally removing a kid from Florida.
Months later, successful October 2015, Eriksen filed a suit alleging slander and libel against Christopher Ikner, his woman Jessica Ikner, arsenic good arsenic 2 different relatives.
“The affectional and intelligence harm done to the insignificant kid volition beryllium evident for years, and volition necessitate counseling, and fixed the kid being the property of 11, volition person representation impacted by the behaviors of each the defendants for the mendacious claims done connected his mother, and for the parental alienation of the adjacent relationship
of the insignificant child,” the suit stated.
Eriksen sought $80,000 successful damages to usage toward the boy’s assemblage fund.
Phoenix Ikner was besides listed arsenic a plaintiff successful the suit, which was yet dismissed 7 months later.
Christian Gunnar Eriksen changed his sanction to Phoenix Ikner successful 2020.
The now-20-year-old is accused of opening occurrence connected the Tallahassee campus, sidesplitting 2 radical and wounding 5 others connected Thursday afternoon.
The deadly rampage began adjacent the campus’s pupil national building.
Terrifying video captured the infinitesimal a gunman walked done the area, firing shots from a handgun believed to beryllium the aged work limb owned by his stepmom, Jessica Ikner.
Heavily equipped archetypal responders converged connected the country and confronted the gunman.
Officials accidental Ikner didn’t comply with commands and was changeable earlier being taken into constabulary custody.
He was hospitalized for his injuries.
Before the suspected gunman’s individuality was revealed to the public, Eriksen ranted against Christopher and Jessica Ikner for failing to pass with her regarding her son’s whereabouts.
“Horrible erstwhile your alienating son’s dada is arsenic mentally unstable arsenic helium is, on with his LCSO bull wife, that they can’t respond erstwhile you constitute to inquire if everything is alright with my son, who studies astatine FSU,” Eriksen wrote successful a now-deleted Facebook station viewed by the Daily Mail.
“That full familly [sic] is nuts. He should constitute a publication connected however to genitor badly, but helium can’t communicate,” Eriksen added.
“Feel atrocious for everyone astatine FSU and their kids.”
The 2 fatal victims, whose names weren’t revealed, were not students astatine the school, Chief of field constabulary Jason Trumbower said.
Officials person not revealed a motive down the attack.
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