Two days after Florida State University reopened the Student Union in the wake of the April 17 mass shooting, lawyers for one of the men who was killed will gather outside the building to “break their silence” during a news conference.
Attorneys for the family of the late Tiru Chabba of Greenville, South Carolina, will gather outside the Student Union on North Woodward Avenue at 10 a.m. on April 30, according to a press release from the Strom Law Firm of Columbia, South Carolina.
The funeral for Tiru Chabba, one of the two men killed during a mass shooting April 17, 2055 one the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, will be held in Greenville, South Carolina.
The family’s legal team, which includes nationally known civil rights lawyer Barkari Sellers of the Strom firm and attorneys Jim Bannister and J. Robert Bell III, will be speaking during the news conference.
The attorneys will be “calling for full transparency and a thorough investigation of the events surrounding the April 17 shooting as well as answering questions from the media,” the law firm said.
Chabba, 45, an employee of FSU vendor Aramark Collegiate Hospitality was killed in the mass shooting along with FSU employee Robert Morales, 57, of Tallahassee.
Florida State University police shot and “neutralized” the suspected shooter, Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old FSU student, a couple of minutes after the rampage began. He faces first-degree murder charges when he is released from the hospital.
This is a developing story. Check back for details.
Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com or 850-599-2180.
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