TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - On Wednesday, Judge Lance Neff approved a motion from the attorneys of the accused Florida State University shooter to push his trial back again - this time to October 2026.

Pheonix Ikner is accused of killing two people and injuring others when he started shooting on Florida State University’s campus in April.

The 21-year-old’s trial was initially pushed back to March 30, 2026 after he received new defense counsel.

On Sept. 25, the defense filed a motion to delay the trial again, citing over 250 witnesses the State has listed and “potentially hundreds if not thousands of hours of video” and large amounts of electronic data.

Defense attorneys said “the complextity of the guilt phase investigation alone” is impossible to adequately prepare for in just ov

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