The son of a Florida State University (FSU) police officer opened fire with her old service weapon, killing two people and wounding six others, authorities said.

Phoenix Eichner, a 20-year-old FSU student accused of opening fire during lunchtime near the student union building in the state capital of Tallahassee, opened fire.

The suspect was shot by police and taken to a hospital. The motive is unclear. Campus police said the victims were not students, but their identities have not been released.

The suspect is the son of a veteran Leon County police officer who is an exemplary employee, Sheriff Walt McNeil said. Jessica Eichner, a school resource officer, kept the gun after the force upgraded its weapons.

Investigators say the shooter is believed to be an FSU student.

He was a “longtime member” of the sheriff’s office’s youth advisory board and had been involved in a number of training programs, Sheriff McNeil said.

“So it’s not surprising that he was able to obtain weapons,” he said.

The suspect was a protester at a campus protest against President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, the student newspaper reported.

His quote to FSUNews.com was removed Thursday, along with an editorial note saying the outlet did not want to amplify the suspect’s voice.

The university said police responded to a call of an active shooter around noon local time. Students and those on campus were warned to “take shelter and await further instructions.”

“My classmate got an alert on her phone and alerted the rest of the class,” student Ava Arenado told CBS News Miami.

Another student, Blake Leonard, told CBS that she initially heard about 12 shots.

“In my head, I thought it was construction, until I looked behind me and saw people running towards me from the union, and then I heard 12 or 15 more shots, so I started running,” he said.

President Donald Trump, who said he was briefed on the incident before meeting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House, was asked if the shooting would require changes to gun regulations.

He said he is a “major advocate” of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects gun rights.

“I’ve been doing that since the beginning,” he said. “I’ve defended it. These things are dangerous. We’ll have more to say about that later.”

He called the shooting “a disgrace, a terrible thing.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said: “Our prayers are with our FSU family and state law enforcement is responding proactively.”

This is not the first shooting at FSU. In 2015, a graduate of the school opened fire in the library, wounding three people, before being fatally shot by police.

The father of a girl killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida said several of her classmates who were lucky enough to survive the attack were on FSU’s campus during Thursday’s attack.

Gun control advocate Fred Gutenberg wrote in X: “Incredibly, some of them were only part of their second school shooting, and some were in the student body today.”