TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Two food service employees have been identified as being killed when a gunman fired on Florida State University’s campus on Thursday.
“We are heartbroken by confirming that Aramark employees are among those killed at FSU in that meaningless act of violence yesterday,” a spokesman for the food service provider said Friday. “We are absolutely shaken up by the news, and our deepest sympathy lies in our family and our entire Aramark community.”
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The Aramark employee was identified as Tiru Chabba, the 45-year-old father of two. According to his family’s lawyers, he was a resident of Greenville, South Carolina. The campus meal employee was identified by his family as Robert Morales, from Miami-Dade County. He was also an FSU graduate.
“You deserve more, Robert. Thank you for being in my life,” the man claiming to be Morales’ older brother wrote in X’s post.
Ricardo Morales, the father of the Morales brothers, was a Cuban exile who became a CIA exile in South Florida under the nickname “Monkey.” Ricardo Morales Jr. will be releasing his father’s work later this year in his upcoming book, “Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythical Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA operative, FBI Information Provider, Smuggler and Dad.”
“Seouled as “ape” for his destructive and unpredictable escape, Morales grabbed headlines for decades as a story of his bombing, arresting and assassination attempts (both the person he was executed and the person he suffered), and his testimony has constructed a real-life spy adventure that is different from what was brought to the pages and screens.”
Elder Morales was fatally shot in 1982 at the age of 43 in a bar brawl.
A spokesman for Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare said in a statement that two of the six injured patients are expected to be discharged from the hospital on Friday. The condition of the three shooting victims has improved, but another shooting condition remained “fair.”
Detectives say the 20-year-old shooter, identified as Phoenix Ekner, is the defendant, and was injured by police in the shootout.
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