TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Court records filed in Leon County shed new light on who the suspect in the Florida State University shooting is.

Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said the alleged shooter, Phoenix Ikner, was related to one of his deputies, who is Ikner’s stepmother. Ikner was said to have gotten access to his stepmother’s personal handgun, which was found at FSU.

Two people were killed and six others were injured in the mass shooting. Ikner was also hospitalized after being shot by police.

According to NBC News, the suspected shooter, Phoenix Ikner, originally went by the name Christian Gunnar Eriksen. An FBI official told NBC that the 20-year-old changed his name in 2020, taking his father’s last name.

Court records showed that as a child, Ikner was in the middle of a custody battle that escalated in 2015 when his biological mother, Anne-Mari Eriksen, took her son out of the country against his father’s wishes.

On March 27, 2015, his father, who was already married to Ikner’s stepmother by this time, filed a report of a child custody order violation against Eriksen.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the boy’s mother originally told his father that she would be taking their son to South Florida for Spring Break.

Instead, Eriksen fled the country for Norway. Court documents said Ikner and his mother were dual citizens of the United States and Norway.

Court records stated that while Eriksen had custody rights, she was not allowed to take her son out of the country without 14-days notice.

“Mr. Ikner advised that Christian has developmental delays and has special needs which he feared would not be taken care of without access to his doctors here in the United States,” the 2015 affidavit said.

According to another affidavit, Ikner had several physical and mental health issues that required medication, including a growth hormone disorder and ADHD.

Eventually, Ikner was returned to his father, and his mother was sentenced to a 200-day jail sentence, two years of community control, and two years of probation.

As of this report, Ikner remained in a Tallahassee hospital for his injuries. He has yet to be formally charged in the FSU shooting.

The motive for the shooting is not yet known.