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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. New details are beginning to emerge concerning

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Speaker 2: the twenty year old student from Florida State University identified

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Speaker 2: by authorities as the gunman in the shooting incident on

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Speaker 2: the Tallahassee campus that resulted in two deaths and at

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Speaker 2: least six injuries. Police are reporting that Phoenix Eichner was

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Speaker 2: involved in a difficult custody dispute between his biological parents.

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Speaker 2: These details coming out as many FSU students are coming

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Speaker 2: forward to talk about the shooting.

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Speaker 3: And so we got up, looked out the window and

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Speaker 3: I remember looking outside and hearing five more shots go off,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, what's going on? So saw kids

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Speaker 3: running away from the student union and I walked away

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Speaker 3: from the window. Then I walked back to the window

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Speaker 3: and heard six seven more shots ring out, and at

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Speaker 3: that point we were like, okay, there's a shooting going on.

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Speaker 3: So ran from our classroom, went to the offices, locked

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Speaker 3: the doors, barricade ourselves in there and let me waited.

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Speaker 3: And I was looking out the window again and saw

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Speaker 3: the SWAT teams pull up, the police cars, the FBI

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Speaker 3: come and at that point We're like, okay, we got

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Speaker 3: to bunk ourselves in and we were like we were praying.

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Speaker 3: We're like, okay, something's got to change here, and the

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Speaker 3: SWAT team came into the room. They're like stay where

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Speaker 3: you are, don't move, And we were in there for

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Speaker 3: about thirty minutes and at that point we were escorted out.

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Speaker 2: That was CBS reporting. Court documents obtained by CBS reveal

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Speaker 2: a lengthy legal battle between the parents of the suspect,

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Speaker 2: Phoenix Eichner, who was subsequently shot by police and transported

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Speaker 2: to a hospital following the tragic shooting. According to law

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Speaker 2: enforcement officials, the firearm used in the shooting was a

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Speaker 2: personal handgun previously belonging to the suspect's stepmother, who is

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Speaker 2: a deputy with the Leon County Sheriff's Office. The custody

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Speaker 2: conflict between Aichner's birth mother and Marie Erickson, and his father,

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Speaker 2: Christopher Eichner, dates back to two thousand and seven and

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Speaker 2: seemed to last until mid twenty twenty three. Public records

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Speaker 2: indicate that Christopher Eichner married Jessica Eichner, also a deputy

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Speaker 2: with the Leon County Sheriff's Office, in twenty ten. Sheriff

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Speaker 2: Walter McNeil confirmed that Jessica Eichner has been employed by

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Speaker 2: the Sheriff's office for eighteen years and has recently seen

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Speaker 2: a social media post where she received an award from

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Speaker 2: the sheriff. She has served as a school resource deputy,

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Speaker 2: as outlined on the LCSO website. In twenty fifteen, and

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Speaker 2: Marie Ericson, the birth mother of the boy, initiated a

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Speaker 2: lawsuit against Christopher Eichner, Jessica Eichner, and other relatives, claiming slander. However,

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Speaker 2: that case was dismissed the following year. A friend and

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Speaker 2: classmate of Eichner said she was shocked to hear that

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Speaker 2: he was the suspected shooter.

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Speaker 4: For the most part, he was like an average day person.

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Speaker 4: We got along well. I had a mutual friend with him,

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Speaker 4: and we would all hang out. He's been to a

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Speaker 4: placed together a couple times, and what I mean, we've gone.

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Speaker 1: Like roller skating and all that together.

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Speaker 4: So this whenever we were at home and we were

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Speaker 4: listening to the report and everything and they said his name,

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Speaker 4: I had him rewind the the feed a couple like

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Speaker 4: two or three times before I finally realized that this

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Speaker 4: is the person. I thought it was because when the

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Speaker 4: first time I heard it, I thought that he was

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Speaker 4: one of the few people injured. But now it's just

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Speaker 4: it's weird to think about that that that was what

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Speaker 4: he was capable of, because he never showed any signs.

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Speaker 4: So I don't really know what to think of it now.

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Speaker 2: The investigation is ongoing. No motive has been revealed at

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Speaker 2: this time. More crime injustice news After this, Fred Piccolo,

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Speaker 2: who previously served as a spokesperson for Governor Ron Descentist

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Speaker 2: and most recently held the position of marketing director at

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Speaker 2: New College of Florida, was dismissed following his fourth arrest

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Speaker 2: within a year on indecent exposure charges. In twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: Piccolo resigned from his role as Dissentist spokesperson after facing

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Speaker 2: criticism for a tweet that minimized COVID nineteen deaths. Two

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Speaker 2: years later, he faced allegations of sending inappropriate text messages

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Speaker 2: while acting as the campaign manager for Florida Representative Jackie Toledo.

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Speaker 2: Although he denied those claims and the allegations were eventually dropped,

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Speaker 2: it did tarnish his reputation, he says. Most recently in

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Speaker 2: August twenty four, Piquillo was arrested multiple times for allegedly

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Speaker 2: exposing himself to employees at Banana Republic and Dillard's, located

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Speaker 2: in the University Town Center Mall in Sarasota. This is

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Speaker 2: reported by the Tampa Bay Times. On Tuesday, Manatee County

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Speaker 2: Sheriff's deputies arrested Piccolo again on charges of exposure of

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Speaker 2: sexual organs. A spokesperson for New Costedge confirmed that he

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Speaker 2: was terminated from his role as director of Marketing and

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Speaker 2: Media the next day, and his profile was subsequently removed

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Speaker 2: from the college's website. Previous arrest records indicate that Piccolo

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Speaker 2: allegedly engaged in leud conduct in public, including returning to

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Speaker 2: this same store on several occasions to commit similar offenses.

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Speaker 2: As of today, he remains in custody and has not

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Speaker 2: publicly addressed the latest charges. Piccolo is currently facing four

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Speaker 2: open cases related to indecent exposure, which is classified as

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Speaker 2: a third degree felony under Florida law.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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