2025 Florida State University shooting

Mass shooting in Florida, U.S.

2025 Florida State University shooting

120m
131yds

Location| Florida State University, Student Union Building, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Coordinates| 30°26′41″N 84°17′51″W﻿ / ﻿30.444803°N 84.297397°W﻿ / 30.444803; -84.297397
Date| April 17, 2025; 2 months ago (2025-04-17)
11:57 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EDT)
Target| Students and staff at Florida State University

Attack type

| Mass shooting, school shooting
Weapons|

* .45 caliber Glock 21 semi-automatic pistol
* 12-gauge shotgun (unused)

Deaths| 2
Injured| 7 (6 by gunfire, including the suspect)
Motive| Under investigation
Accused| Phoenix Ikner

On April 17, 2025, a mass shooting occurred on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. The suspect, 20-year-old student Phoenix Ikner, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted first-degree murder.[1]

The university issued an alert at 12:01 p.m. EDT (UTC−4) warning of a shooting at the Student Union area.[2] The Florida State University Police Department detained Ikner.[3] A search was made for any additional shooters, and some local TV stations reported that two suspects were involved, but the Florida State University Police Department apprehended only Ikner.[4][5]

## Background

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Main article: Florida State University

Florida State University is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It maintains 17 colleges, as well as 58 centers, facilities, labs, institutes, and professional training programs. In 2023, the university enrolled 43,701 students from all 50 states and 135 countries.[6]

A previous shooting took place at the school in November 2014 when a gunman opened fire in the university's library around midnight, wounding three people before being killed by responding law enforcement.[7]

## Shooting

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The suspect arrived at a Florida State University parking garage at approximately 11:00 a.m. before leaving at 11:51 a.m. During the time, he mostly stayed in his car while occasionally exiting the vehicle to linger around.[8] After leaving the parking garage, the suspect drove his car into a service road next to the student union, and parked it at 11:57 a.m.. The suspect got out of his car and pulled out a shotgun, aiming it at a student. However, for unknown reasons, the shotgun failed to fire. The suspect placed the shotgun back in his vehicle and picked up his step-mother's Glock handgun. At 11:57:22 a.m., the suspect was captured on CCTV running towards the union while concealing the handgun in his right pocket.[1]

At 11:57:24 a.m., the suspect aimed his handgun and fired the first shots outside the student union. He wounded two students on the lawn while firing at several others.[9][10] A video shows a person in shorts and a T-shirt walking and firing across a lawn on campus.[11] After firing across the lawn, the suspect began to run to the student union. At 11:58:22 a.m., the suspect entered the building. He would run through the building while chasing people. At 11:58:36 a.m., the suspect chased campus vendor, Tiru Chappa, out of the building. He shot Chappa and ran west. At 11:58:51 a.m., the suspect returned to Chappa and shot him again. At 11:58:54 a.m., the suspect ran towards the union's bookstore while firing at a group of students outside, hitting three nonfatally. The group of students ran away while the suspect chased them. He would return to the bookstore's entrance to fire at another student, missing them.

At 11:59:30 a.m., the suspect reentered the student union building. At around the same time, campus dining director, Robert Morales, was seen walking at a quick pace in the food court. Seconds later, at 11:59:42 a.m., the suspect ran up from behind Morales and fatally shot him in the back twice. He shot Morales two more times. After this, at 11:59:54 a.m., the suspect chased a student out of the building while shooting at her.[10] He exited the building at 12:00:05 a.m.. According to the university's alert system, the first active shooter alert was issued after 12:00 p.m., and the second was issued at 12:19 p.m. After 15 minutes, all students inside were escorted out of the building by police.[12]

One student described seeing the alleged shooter firing a rifle in her direction. She reportedly heard 15 rounds fired indiscriminately for approximately 20 to 30 seconds.[13] She said that the suspect had pulled up in an orange Hummer outside the university and started firing his rifle. He then pulled out a pistol and shot a woman in front of him.[14] An eyewitness claimed the shooter approached her, reloaded his weapon and calmly said "Keep running". She added that he stayed where she was before eventually leaving.[15]

Another student who had been in the restroom at the start of the shooting thought the roof was collapsing before other students ran in and alerted her. Four of them held the door shut as it did not lock, before being evacuated. Another group recounted barricading themselves in a corner behind trash cans and plywood in the student union basement. A student told how another student who had survived the Parkland high school shooting sheltered with them and exclaimed; "Man, I never thought this would happen again".[16]

Shortly after 3:00 p.m., the university lifted the lockdown for the majority of the campus, with nine buildings still under lockdown as active crime scenes. The suspect was shot by police three minutes and three seconds after the first shot was fired at 12:00:27 p.m., for refusing to comply with commands.[17][18] Just before the suspect was shot, he was standing outside the student union building, firing his handgun at another person trying to flee. Students nearby were advised to remain indoors and to not return to the building to retrieve personal items.[9]

A viral video at the university shows a person walking past and not helping a woman lying face down who was shot and bleeding out on the grass at the scene of the shooting to instead drink Starbucks coffee. The video caused outrage on Twitter.[19]

Two firearms were found by police: one on the arrested suspect and one in a car parked nearby. One of the firearms was the former service weapon of the suspect's stepmother, a Leon County Sheriff's deputy.[20]

## Victims

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On the afternoon of April 17, Florida State University chief of police Jason Trumbower reported that two people were killed, and an additional seven injured, including the suspect, had been admitted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Five of the victims were shot, and the sixth was injured while running away from the shooting.[21] The deceased victims were two adult males who were not students at the university.[22] They were identified as 57-year-old campus dining director Robert Morales, who was killed during a meeting with other university employees, and 45-year-old employee of a campus vendor Tiru Chabba. Chabba was a regional vice president at Aramark Collegiate Hospitality.[23] Morales was from Miami-Dade County, and Chabba was from Greenville, South Carolina. Morales had worked at the university in dining services and as an assistant football coach since 2015.[24][25]

All seven injured victims were reported to be in fair condition on the day of the shooting. One of the injured victims was identified as a 23-year-old graduate student, who was shot in the buttocks while running away from the shooter.[15] Tallahassee Police Department Chief Lawrence Revell said it appears that there was no connection between the shooter and the victims.[26] On April 18, two were expected to be discharged, three were in good condition, and one remained in fair condition.[27] A surgeon said he expects all of them to make a full recovery.[22] The suspect, who was shot once in the jaw by law enforcement, remained hospitalized with significant injuries and was not speaking to law enforcement.[26][28]

After a one-month stay and multiple surgeries, Ikner was released from a Tallahassee area hospital on May 12, 2025. He was taken to the Leon County Detention Facility and transferred later that day to the Wakulla County Detention Facility in Crawfordville, Florida, as a “standard protocol” because of Ikner being related to a Leon County Sheriff’s Office deputy.[29]

## Aftermath

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The university canceled all classes and business operations through April 18 and canceled all home events for their athletics teams through April 20.[30] Classes at nearby Florida A&M University and Tallahassee State College were also cancelled.[31][32] Police increased patrols on the campus of Florida International University in response to the shooting.[33]

A large makeshift memorial was set up on a sidewalk near where the shooting took place and crosses with the deceased victim’s names were put up.[34] The university also held a vigil for the victims of the shooting at Langford Green in front of the Doak Campbell Stadium, the university's football stadium, in the afternoon of April 18.[27]

The FSU Foundation created a Student Emergency Fund that slated to provide financial support to students and families that were affected by the shooting.[35]

## Suspect

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Mugshot of Ikner

The suspect, Phoenix Ikner (born August 18, 2004), is a student of the university, a dual American-Norwegian citizen, and the stepson of a school reserve deputy from the Leon County Sheriff's Office.[36] Ikner obtained the guns used in the shooting from his step-mother.[22] Ikner graduated from Lincoln High School in May 2022[37] and later went to Tallahassee State College (TSC) before transferring to FSU.[38]

Ikner was born Christian Gunnar Eriksen, but his name was changed to Phoenix Ikner in 2020. At the age of 6, Leon County court records from 2011 showed that Ikner had to repeat kindergarten, while his parents fought bitterly over every aspect of his care while accusing each other of manipulation and abuse. Judges were forced to intervene multiple times as his parents traded allegations of domestic violence and stalking. The legal battle consumed nearly his entire childhood and ended only when he became an adult and most of the family court matters became moot.[39]

Ikner lived in Tallahassee throughout most of his life, despite being listed in the population register under his Norwegian name as a Norwegian citizen, except in 2015, when his biological mother, who was born in Oslo, Norway, took her then-10-year-old son to the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport and the two boarded a Scandinavian Airlines flight to Oslo in March 2015 in violation of the custody agreement she had with his father, after falsely telling his father that she was taking him to South Florida for spring break.[40] After four months, she was arrested on July 27 of that year at the same airport on a kidnapping charge in connection of the abduction, and both Ikner and his biological mother were transferred back to Leon County. Having custody rights, his biological mother, though the agreement stipulated that she could not take him from the country without advance notification, said she would return Ikner to the United States on March 27, 2015, but failed to do so, according to a Leon County affidavit.[41][42][43][44]

His father later discovered that his son had been kidnapped when the then-10-year-old told him during a phone call, then quickly became worried and alerted authorities, saying that his son Ikner "has both developmental delays and special needs" which he feared would not be taken care of without access to his regular doctors. The affidavit from the Leon County Sheriff's Office said that Ikner was "on medication for several health and mental issues, to include a growth hormone disorder and ADHD." Despite Ikner's disappearance, an Amber alert was never issued by Florida authorities. Several months later, in October 2015, his biological mother filed a lawsuit alleging slander and libel against Ikner's father, stepmother, and two other relatives, and sought $80,000 in damages to use toward Ikner's college fund. On July 14, 2016, his biological mother pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 200 days in prison with credit for 170 days of time served, followed by two years of community control and two more years of probation.[45]

Back in Tallahassee, Ikner was also a member of the sheriff's office's Youth Advisory Council from 2021 to 2022. During his later years, Ikner espoused white supremacist, far-right and homophobic views causing him to be kicked out of a political group at TSC.[46][47] He also advocated for President Donald Trump's agenda and was fascinated with German dictator Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He frequently argued with people over politics and joined hate groups. Ikner used a drawing of Hitler for an online gaming account and named another account Schutzstaffel.[48] His step-mother Jessica Ikner, who was the Leon County middle school deputy, was one of two officers who were named "2011 Deputies of the Year" by the Leon County Sheriff's Office's Citizen's Academy banquet in May 2011.[49]

## Reactions

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Ikner's biological mother, Anne-Mari Eriksen, spoke privately in her Tallahassee apartment to ABC affiliate WPLG in Miami, saying that her son Ikner never wanted to hunt when he was little, and hasn't seen Ikner in several years prior to the shooting because she was alienated from him. Because of the issue, she told WPLG that she's been concerned for him after being isolated. She added that "all she wanted for him was a loving environment".[50]

Ikner's maternal grandmother, Susan Eriksen, described Ikner as the sweetest and smartest boy, and blamed both his father and step-mother following the shooting for their influence over their son, before calling his parents "rotten bastard people" and breaking down into tears multiple times. She revealed during an interview in another Tallahassee apartment that she and Ikner's biological mother had not seen Ikner since 2015 despite repeated attempts following their messy custody battle.[51]

### Political

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President Donald Trump, after being informed about the shooting in the Oval Office during a press briefing, said that "It's a horrible thing. It's horrible that things like this take place, and we'll have more to say about it later".[52][53]

Governor Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that they are praying for the law enforcement that responded to the shooting.[53] Senator Ashley Moody stated that she is "praying for the safety of the students".[54] DeSantis ordered flags to be flown at half-mast until April 21 in Florida to honor the victims and recognize the first responders.[55]

Secretary of DHS, Kristi Noem, stated that her "heart breaks for the students, their families, and faculty at Florida State University".[5] FBI director Kash Patel said that he and his team had been briefed on the shooting. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he stated: "We will provide full support to local law enforcement as needed", he added: "Please keep the FSU community in your prayers".[56]

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair and Parkland survivor David Hogg was interviewed shortly after the shooting, and expressed concerns about gun safety. Hogg also mentioned other Parkland survivors and how they were affected by surviving two school shootings in less than eight years.[57]

### Activists and organizations

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Fred Guttenberg, the father of the Parkland High School shooting victim Jaime Guttenberg, spoke out against the shooting, stating that all he wanted "...was to help our children be safe" in an effort to reduce gun violence. Guttenberg also mentioned that some of his deceased daughter's friends had gone on to attend Florida State University and some had been at the student union and survived their second school shooting.[58] Other Parkland shooting parents, family members and survivors echoed similar comments with Manuel Oliver, father of victim Joaquin Oliver bluntly stating "I don't understand how anyone could be surprised" and the brother of victim Alyssa Alhadeff stating "I thought this would never happen again...but it continuously keeps happening -- and something has to change."[59][35]

American professional basketball team Miami Heat said "We are devastated by the senseless gun violence that claimed innocent lives in our state. Many members of our Heat family are Florida State alumni as well as parents of our current students, some of whom had chairs wedged under their dorm doors to barricade themselves inside. These students should be preparing for finals, not wondering if they should prepare to say final goodbyes. How many more of these events must take place before meaningful reform is enacted to end this epidemic?"[60][61]

## See also

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* History of Florida State University
* List of shootings in Florida
* List of mass shootings in the United States in 2025
* 2014 Florida State University shooting

## References

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## External links

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* A video of the memorial

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School shootings in the United States

Prior to 2000
(full list)|

| 1760s|

* Enoch Brown school massacre (1764)

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1960s|

* University of Texas (1966)
* Rose-Mar College of Beauty (1966)

1970s|

* Kent State University (1970)
* Jackson State University (1970)
* Olean High School (1974)
* Computer Learning Center (1976)
* California State University, Fullerton (1976)
* Cleveland Elementary School (1979)

1980s|

* 49th Street Elementary School (1984)
* Cokeville Elementary School (1986)
* Hubbard Woods Elementary School (1988)
* Oakland Elementary School (1988)
* Cleveland Elementary School (1989)

1990s|

* University of Iowa (1991)
* Lindhurst High School (1992)
* Bard College at Simon's Rock (1992)
* East Carter High School (1993)
* Wickliffe Middle School (1994)
* Blackville–Hilda High School (1995)
* Richland High School (1995)
* Frontier Middle School (1996)
* San Diego State University (1996)
* Bethel Regional High School (1997)
* Pearl High School (1997)
* Heath High School (1997)
* Westside Middle School (1998)
* Parker Middle School (1998)
* Thurston High School (1998)
* Columbine High School (1999)

2000 to present
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| 2000s|

* Buell Elementary School (2000)
* Lake Worth Middle School (2000)
* University of Arkansas (2000)
* Santana High School (2001)
* Appalachian School of Law (2002)
* John McDonogh High School (2003)
* Case Western Reserve University (2003)
* Rocori High School (2003)
* Red Lake Senior High School (2005)
* Campbell County High School (2005)
* Pine Middle School (2006)
* Platte Canyon High School (2006)
* Weston High School (2006)
* West Nickel Mines School (2006)
* Virginia Tech (2007)
* Delaware State University (2007)
* SuccessTech Academy (2007)
* Northern Illinois University (2008)
* E.O. Junior High School (2008)
* University of Central Arkansas (2008)

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2010s|

* University of Alabama in Huntsville (2010)
* Chardon High School (2012)
* Oikos University (2012)
* Sandy Hook Elementary School (2012)
* Santa Monica College (2013)
* Sparks Middle School (2013)
* University of California, Santa Barbara (2014)
* Marysville Pilchuck High School (2014)
* Florida State University (2014)
* Umpqua Community College (2015)
* Northern Arizona University (2015)
* University of California, Los Angeles (2016)
* El Centro College (2016)
* Townville Elementary School (2016)
* North Park Elementary School (2017)
* Rancho Tehama Elementary School (2017)
* Aztec High School (2017)
* Marshall County High School (2018)
* Stoneman Douglas High School (2018)
* Santa Fe High School (2018)
* Noblesville West Middle School (2018)
* University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2019)
* STEM School Highlands Ranch (2019)
* Saugus High School (2019)

2020s|

* Oxford High School (2021)
* Liberty Point International Middle School (2022)
* East High School (2022)
* Edmund Burke School (2022)
* Robb Elementary School (2022)
* Rusdale High School (2022)
* Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (2022)
* University of Virginia (2022)
* Richneck Elementary School (2023)
* Michigan State University (2023)
* Covenant School (2023)
* Virginia Commonwealth University (2023)
* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023)
* University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2023)
* Perry High School (2024)
* Apalachee High School (2024)
* Tuskegee University (2024)
* Feather River School (2024)
* Abundant Life Christian School (2024)
* Antioch High School (2025)
* Florida State University (2025)

In media|

| Film and
television|

* The Deadly Tower (1975)
* Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997)
* Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999)
* Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)
* Bowling for Columbine (2002)
* Heart of America (2002)
* Home Room (2002)
* "Jimmy" (2002)
* Elephant (2003)
* Zero Day (2003)
* American Yearbook (2004)
* "Time Stands Still" (2004)
* The Only Way (2004)
* Dawn Anna (2005)
* All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
* American Gun (2006)
* State's Evidence (2006)
* The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)
* April Showers (2009)
* Beautiful Boy (2010)
* We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
* Hello Herman (2012)
* White Rabbit (2013)
* Rudderless (2014)
* Sins of Our Youth (2014)
* The Cokeville Miracle (2015)
* I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
* Tower (2016)
* "Dead Kids" (2018)
* Vox Lux (2018)
* Safety (2019)
* If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
* Run Hide Fight (2020)
* The Fallout (2021)
* Mass (2021)
* Eric Larue (2023)
* The Graduates (2023)
* The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024)

|

Literature|

* Give a Boy a Gun (2000)
* Nobody Left to Hate (2001)
* No Easy Answers (2002)
* After (2003)
* Columbine (2009)
* Hate List (2009)
* "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (2014–)
* A Mother's Reckoning (2016)

Other|

* Bang Bang You're Dead (1999)
* Pico's School (1999)
* Lullaby for Columbine (1999)
* "Shoot" (1999/2010)
* "The Nobodies" (2000)
* Columbinus (2005)
* Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (2005)
* V-Tech Rampage (2007)
* "Valentine's Day" (2013)
* The Library (2014)

Related terms
and topics|

* Active shooter
* Columbine effect
* Gun violence in the United States
* List of school shootings in the United States by death toll
* Mass shootings in the United States
* Thoughts and prayers
* School shooting
* School violence

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Mass shootings in the United States in the 2020s

2020|

* Grantsville, UT (Jan. 17)
* Milwaukee, WI (Feb. 26)
* Springfield, MO (Mar. 15)
* Valhermmoso Springs, AL (Jun. 4)
* Rochester, NY (Sep. 19)
* Henderson, NV (Nov. 3)
* Wauwatosa, WI (Nov. 20)
* Williamsburg, WV (Dec. 8)

2021|

* Chicago, IL (Jan. 9)
* Muskogee, OK (Feb. 2)
* Sunrise, FL (Feb. 2)
* Buffalo, MN (Feb. 9)
* Atlanta, GA (Mar. 16)
* Boulder, CO (Mar. 22)
* Orange, CA (Mar. 31)
* Rock Hill, SC (Apr. 7)
* Indianapolis, IN (Apr. 15)
* San Jose, CA (May 26)
* Hialeah, FL (May 30)
* Collierville, TN (Sep. 23)
* Oxford Township, MI (Nov. 30)
* Garland, TX (Dec. 26)
* Denver & Lakewood, CO (Dec. 27)

2022|

* Portland, OR (Feb. 19)
* Sacramento, CA (Apr. 3)
* New York City, NY (Apr. 12)
* Buffalo, NY (May 14)
* Laguna Woods, CA (May 15)
* Chicago, IL (May 19)
* Uvalde, TX (May 24)
* Tulsa, OK (Jun. 1)
* Centerville, TX (Jun. 2)
* Philadelphia, PA (Jun. 4)
* Chattanooga, TN (Jun. 5)
* Allen, KY (Jun. 30)
* Highland Park, IL (Jul. 4)
* Greenwood, IN (Jul. 17)
* Denver, CO (Jul. 17)
* Phoenix, AZ (Aug. 28)
* Bend, OR (Aug. 28)
* Memphis, TN (Sep. 7)
* Oakland, CA (Sep. 28)
* Raleigh, NC (Oct. 13)
* St. Louis, MO (Oct. 24)
* Charlottesville, VA (Nov. 13)
* Colorado Springs, CO (Nov. 19–20)
* Chesapeake, VA (Nov. 22)

2023|

* Enoch, UT (Jan. 4)
* Goshen, CA (Jan. 16)
* Monterey Park, CA (Jan. 21)
* Half Moon Bay, CA (Jan. 23)
* East Lansing, MI (Feb. 13)
* Pine Hills, FL (Feb. 22)
* Nashville, TN (Mar. 27)
* Louisville, KY (Apr. 10)
* Dadeville, AL (Apr. 15)
* Bowdoin & Yarmouth, ME (Apr. 18)
* San Jacinto County, TX (Apr. 28)
* Okmulgee County, OK (May 1)
* Atlanta, GA (May 3)
* Allen, TX (May 6)
* Farmington, NM (May 15)
* Richmond, VA (Jun. 6)
* Annapolis, MD (Jun. 11)
* Monroe Township, OH (Jun. 15)
* Columbus, OH (Jun. 23)
* Baltimore, MD (Jul. 2)
* Philadelphia, PA (Jul. 3)
* Fargo, ND (Jul. 14)
* Trabuco Canyon, CA (Aug. 23)
* Jacksonville, FL (Aug. 26)
* Lewiston, ME (Oct. 25)
* Chicago, IL (Oct. 29)
* Tampa, FL (Oct. 29)
* Austin, TX (Dec. 5)
* Paradise, NV (Dec. 6)

2024|

* Perry, IA (Jan. 4)
* Joliet & Preston Heights, IL (Jan. 21)
* East Lansdowne, PA (Feb. 7)
* Kansas City, MO (Feb. 14)
* Burnsville, MN (Feb. 18)
* Charlotte, NC (Apr. 29)
* Minneapolis, MN (May 30)
* Rochester Hills, MI (Jun. 15)
* Fordyce, AR (Jun. 21)
* Tampa, FL (Jun. 23)
* Florence, KY (Jul. 6)
* Meridian, PA (Jul. 13)
* Oak Park, IL (Sep. 2)
* Barrow County, GA (Sep. 4)
* Laurel County, KY (Sep. 7)
* Birmingham, AL (Sep. 21)
* Orlando, FL (Nov. 1)
* Duluth, MN (Nov. 7)
* Tuskegee, AL (Nov. 10)
* Madison, WI (Dec. 16)

2025|

* New Orleans, LA (Jan. 1)
* Shiloh, PA (Feb. 22)
* Spotsylvania County, VA (Apr. 8)
* Tallahassee, FL (Apr. 17)
* Brooklyn Park & Champlin, MN (Jun. 14)
* Chicago, IL (Jul. 2)

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