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Authorities say the suspect is believed to be a student and is the son of a sheriff's deputy
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And Fox News Antoine Lewis is live in the newsroom tracking the developments as they come in right now
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Antoine, what's the very latest? Well, officials do confirm that two people have been killed and at least six others remain hospitalized
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And as you pointed out, the suspect is the son of a Leon County Sheriff's deputy
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Now, the first 911 calls started coming in around noon. An active shooter situation on the campus of Florida State University
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Multiple injuries were reported. Officials confirming, again, two dead and six others in the hospital there in Tallahassee
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Authorities quickly took a suspect into custody. He has been identified as the 20-year-old son of a female Leon County Sheriff's deputy
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The sheriff says that the suspect had access to at least one of his mother's weapons
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We are hearing that it was a personal weapon that she had purchased from the department when she was issued another gun
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Authorities also say that the suspect was heavily involved in civilian police training
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Take a listen. The alleged shooter was also a long-standing member of the Leon County Sheriff's Office Citizen Advisory or Youth Advisory Council
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So he has been steep in the Leon County Sheriff's Office family, engaged in a number of training programs that we have
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So it not a surprise to us that he had access to weapons This event is tragic Campus police quickly placed FSU on lockdown advising students to stay in place until authorities arrived
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The school sent out a campus-wide alert, making students and faculty aware of what was going on
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Many of them received these alerts on their phones or their electronic devices
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Students reported that they were hiding, some say, in the Student Union building because the shooting took place near there
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Also, some were reportedly hiding in whatever they could find. Another building, an open space, a bowling alley that was there on campus
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One student describes what she saw just minutes after shots rang out
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And we're also hearing from a parent who rushed to FSU after his daughter told him what took place
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As I was walking back, I see these group of girls crying, really upset
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Walking back from the student union told me they heard gunshots and they just ran and came back to their apartment
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where I was walking to. Our hearts and prayers and minds are to anyone who's possibly had a child
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or a relative who's been injured or possible loss of life. Once again, recapping, officials say that
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two people killed, six others remain hospitalized, at least six others remain hospitalized. And we
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also want to let you know that this was not the first time gun violence has happened at Florida
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State. Three people were shot in the university's library in 2014. Police shot and killed that gunman
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a former FSU student. That's the very latest from the newsroom. Bianca, we'll send things now back upstairs to you
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All right, Antoine, thank you for the update on that
