Multiple FSU Students Had Previously Survived Parkland Shooting – Including One Who Lost His Sister: ‘Something Has to Change’

Alyssa Alhadeff via Make Our Schools Safe

Several students at Florida State University who were on campus during Thursday’s mass shooting are survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Among them is FSU student Robbie Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old sister, Alyssa Alhadeff, was one of the 17 people killed at Parkland on Feb. 14, 2018. As ABC News reported, Alyssa was a freshman and a soccer player.

On Thursday, a gunman police identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner opened fire near the FSU student union, killing two people and wounding five others.

Ikner was shot by police and survived.

Alhadeff said he was walking to his apartment when friends began texting him about the shooting. He turned around and went back inside.

“I was scared about the whole situation,” he told ABC News.

Alhadeff said many of his friends at FSU are also from Parkland and are now affected by both shootings.

“A lot of the people I’m friends with are from Parkland,” he said. “This is the second time it’s happened — and no one I know wants to go back to school.”

“You could end up being killed just going to learn,” he added.

Alhadeff also told ABC News he never expected to experience another shooting firsthand.

“I thought this would never happen again,” he said. “But it continuously keeps happening — and something has to change.”

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed at Parkland, said some of Jaime’s former classmates were inside the student union at the time of Thursday’s shooting.

Guttenberg wrote on X:

America is broken. My daughter Jaime was murdered in the Parkland school shooting. Many of her friends who were lucky enough to survive that shooting went on to attend FSU. Incredibly, some of them were just a part of their 2nd school shooting and some were in the student union today. As a father, all I ever wanted after the Parkland shooting was to help our children be safe. Sadly, because of the many people who refuse to do the right things about reducing gun violence, I am not surprised by what happened today.

Authorities said Thursday that Ikner is the son of a local sheriff’s deputy.

Police said the suspect used his mother’s old service handgun to kill two people and that he was also carrying a shotgun that he did not get a chance to operate before officers shot him.