{"id":237109,"date":"2026-04-18T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:43:11","slug":"bells-ring-as-fsu-remembers-one-year-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237109\/","title":{"rendered":"Bells ring as FSU remembers one year after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday marked the one-year anniversary of a shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and six injured.<\/p>\n

The Tallahassee campus community came together to remember and show support.<\/p>\n

FSU held a moment of silence at noon. The campus bells rang. Some people cried.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are hurt and they’re suffering, and they remember,\u201d said Gabriella Nogueira, a sophomore biological sciences student. \u201cWalking up here, I feel kind of shaky.”<\/p>\n

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Nogueira was one of many who left flowers outside the student union building, where the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n

“It’s just important to me that we come here and remember and understand that what happened wasn’t OK and it shouldn’t be normalized,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Students also left sticky notes.<\/p>\n

“Our hearts are always with you,” one read. Many said, “FSU Strong.”<\/p>\n

\"FSU<\/p>\n

FSU sophomore Gabriella Nogueira leaving flowers at the FSU memorial.<\/p>\n

Nico Valenzuela, a senior environmental science and policy student, said there was a beauty in how people came together.<\/p>\n

“I think the first thing that comes to mind is the people here at the vigil, like the immense hugs that were given out or smiles or friends I haven’t seen in a couple years,\u201d Valenzuela said. \u201cWe just have this shared connection of, like, we know what happened, and really, you just put a lot of differences aside.”<\/p>\n

Valenzuela and other Student Government Association members set up the memorial. He separately helped arrange a Catholic rosary prayer.<\/p>\n

He said, on this anniversary, it’s important to be physically and spiritually together.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about state government or the legislative process, you can ask the Your Florida team\u00a0by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was produced by WUSF as part of a statewide journalism initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday marked the one-year anniversary of a shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-237109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}