People on social media are outraged over a video reportedly taken at the scene of a fatal mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, on Thursday, April 17. But it's not just over the alleged shooter, identified by Tallahassee police as 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner. It's over video that was seemingly shot by someone walking past a wounded, bleeding woman lying face down on the grass. Rather than stopping to help or even running away from an active shooter, as what sounds like two shots are fired in the background, the person walks by while sipping from a Starbucks cup.
A video from the Florida State University shooting incident emerged on Friday, showing a witness casually sipping coffee while recording a victim lying on the ground.
A Florida State University student callously strolled past a wounded classmate and filmed her while sipping iced coffee, without lifting a finger to help. The appalling video was widely shared online after Phoenix Ikner, 20, sprayed bullets from his cop mother's gun across the Tallahassee campus, killing two and wounding six. A young woman is seen lying face down in grass by the side of a path, crimson blood soaking through the back of her blue jeans with her white top pulled up. She is motionless and silent as the unnamed student walks past, filming her with their phone as they approach, then turning for a second look after passing. A plastic Starbucks iced coffee cup is visible in the footage as the student filming it nonchalantly sips from it and goes on their way. Viewers were shocked at the casual way the student filmed the wounded woman without even stopping to see if she was still alive. Another video later showed her being helped by a policewoman, who was on her knees assessing the young woman's wounds. Social media commenters were appalled, with one saying: 'The person that filmed this needs to go to jail. That’s sick.'