The organic mother of suspected Florida State College shooter Phoenix Ikner claimed she has not seen her estranged son in a number of years after she kidnapped him to Europe a decade in the past — however had issues over his well-being.
Anne-Mari Eriksen mentioned she had issues for her 20-year-old son earlier than he was accused of killing Aramark staff Tiru Chabba, 45, and Robert Morales, and injuring six others on the campus situated in Tallahassee.
“I have been concerned for him in the past, but I would never have thought that,” Anne-Mari Eriksen instructed WPLG on Friday.
Eriksen, lives in Tallahassee and is a Norwegian-American twin citizen, revealed she misplaced contact with Ikner following the bitter custody battle she had together with her son’s father, Christopher Ikner.
“I was alienated from him,” Eriksen instructed the outlet.
The messy authorized wrestle culminated when Eriksen kidnapped Phoenix Ikner, who was born Christian Gunnar Eriksen, and flew him to Europe in March 2015.
Eriksen claimed she was taking her son to South Florida for spring break, however as an alternative, the mother-son duo travelled to Norway
Eriksen, who had custody of the boy, violated the settlement she had in place with the older Ikner by not getting consent for the abroad journey.
Christopher Ikner was not clued in on the Scandinavian tour till his son unintentionally spilled the beans throughout a telephone name.
The older Ikner filed an emergency movement for custody, fearing his son, who he mentioned had developmental delays and particular wants, was not assembly the medicine protocols wanted.
Eriksen returned to Florida in July 2015 and was arrested at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Worldwide Airport on July 27, 2015.
She pleaded no contest to illegally eradicating a toddler from Florida and was sentenced to 200 days in jail.
Her son had since lived along with his father Christopher Ikner and his spouse, Jessica Ikner, a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy.
Phoenix Ikner is accused of utilizing a handgun that belonged to his stepmother in the course of the taking pictures.
Hours after the taking pictures, earlier than Ikner was recognized because the suspect, Eriksen took to Fb to rail in opposition to her son’s father and stepmother for failing to speak on her son’s situation.
“Horrible when your alienating son’s dad is as mentally unstable as he is, along with his LCSO cop wife, that they can’t respond when you write to ask if everything is alright with my son, who studies at FSU,” Eriksen wrote in a now-deleted Fb submit considered by the Day by day Mail.
“That whole familly [sic] is nuts. He should write a book on how to parent badly, but he can’t communicate,” Eriksen added.
“Feel sorry for everyone at FSU and their kids.”
Officers haven’t revealed a motive within the lethal rampage.
Ikner was a scholar at FSU, having enrolled within the lessons on the college after transferring from Tallahassee State School, the place he earned an affiliate’s diploma final fall.
He was a junior learning political science, FSU spokeswoman Amy Farnum-Patronis instructed the AP.
Ikner was shot by police after initially not complying with orders and was subsequently arrested.
