A man from Greenville County was killed in a mass shooting at Florida State University on April 17.
Tiru Chabba, 45, was at Florida State’s campus in Tallahassee, Florida, “as an employee of a campus vendor,” where he was shot and killed by 20-year-old Pheonix Ikner, according to WYFF News. Ikner is a student at Florida State and was injured by responding officers.
Chabba is one of two fatalities from the shooting, with six others injured. As of Tuesday, five of the six patients wounded by gunfire were treated at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and have been discharged, according to CBS News.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, in 2002. Chabba went on to be a regional vice president for Aramark within Aramark’s Collegiate Hospitality department, according to Fox Carolina News.
“We are heartbroken to confirm that an Aramark employee was among those killed at FSU yesterday in that senseless act of violence,” an Aramark spokesperson told Fox Carolina. “We are absolutely shaken by the news and our deepest sympathies are with the family and our entire Aramark community.”
Chabba’s family hired Jim Bannister, as well as Bakari Sellers, a civil rights lawyer from The Strom Law Firm, to represent them in a lawsuit to “ensure that all those who bear responsibility for this senseless act of violence are held to account,” WYFF News states.
“We ask you to keep his family in your thoughts and prayers as we fight to ensure they see justice that honors the memories of Mr. Chabba and all the victims of Thursday’s shooting,” Sellers told Fox Carolina News.
Chabba is survived by his wife and two children.