Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) politicized the mass shooting at Florida State University after the suspect was rumored to have pro-Trump leanings. 

The alleged gunman, 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner, killed two and wounded six during a shooting on Thursday. In comments about protesters demonstrating against President Donald Trump, he allegedly said, “These people are usually pretty entertaining, usually not for good reasons.”

On Friday, Crockett responded to the shooting by mockingly suggesting lawmakers should take up legislation targeting “all of MAGA.” Failure to take such an action, she sarcastically inferred, would be hypocritical, given Republicans’ passage of the Laken Riley Act, which cracked down on illegal immigrants charged with crimes after an illegal immigrant sexually assaulted and murdered a U.S. citizen.

“So if the reports are true that the FSU mass shooter was a card carrying MAGA fanatic, I expect to see legislation regarding taking action against all of MAGA!” Crockett wrote in a post to X. “I mean Laken Riley was murdered & all non documented people & possibly more, lost their due process rights via legislation.” 

“I expect a great big beautiful bill to make it to the floor when we return at the end of the month that will surely keep innocent students safe from those that wear MAGA hats since we attribute the actions of ONE to an entire group of people when they commit a heinous act,” she continued. 

Crockett’s comments appear to react to a report that Ikner was quoted in an FSU student newspaper article about anti-Trump protests at the school. 

So if the reports are true that the FSU mass shooter was a card carrying MAGA fanatic, I expect to see legislation regarding taking action against all of MAGA!

I mean Laken Riley was murdered & all non documented people & possibly more, lost their due process rights via…

— Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) April 18, 2025

“These people are usually pretty entertaining, usually not for good reasons. I think it’s a little too late, he’s [Trump] already going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there’s not really much you can do unless you outright revolt, and I don’t think anyone wants that,” Ikner, a registered Republican, was quoted as saying. 

A student who said he knew Ikner alleged that the suspect had been removed from a political club at his former college due to white supremacist views, according to NewNation. FSU senior Reid Seybold added that “there wasn’t anything that would truly indicate that he would do something this heinous.”

“He was known for espousing white supremacist and alt-right rhetoric, to the extent where we had to ask him to leave,” Seybold told the outlet. “It’s my understanding that at some point he was allowed to back after I came to Florida State, where he continued to push white-supremacist rhetoric.”

“He’s known for doing this,” he continued. “This is nothing new. This isn’t anything that’s foreign to Phoenix.”

Ikner was the stepson of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy and a member of the police department’s Youth Advisory Council. 

When Trump was briefed on the shooting, he called it “a shame, a horrible thing”.

“It’s horrible that things like this take place,” he said during an Oval Office meeting Thursday. 

The two victims of the FSU shooting have been identified by family members. 

Tiru Chabba, was a father of two who was an employee of a campus vendor. He was from Greenville, South Carolina.

“Tiru Chabba’s family is going through the unimaginable now,”  his family’s attorney told Fox Carolina. “Instead of hiding Easter eggs and visiting with friends and family, they’re living a nightmare where this loving father and devoted husband was stolen from them in an act of senseless and preventable violence.”

Robert Morales was a longtime employee at FSU’s dining services department, per CBS News.  

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“Today we lost my younger brother,” Robert’s brother, Ricardo Morales Jr. wrote in a post to X. “He was one of the victims killed at FSU. He loved his job at FSU and his beautiful wife and daughter. I’m glad you were in my life.”

All six people injured during the shooting are expected to make full recoveries.