There appears to be no apparent motive behind a shooting Thursday at Florida State University or connections between the victims and the alleged shooter, Rep. Neal Dunn, whose district includes the Tallahassee area, told Newsmax on Friday.

“This practice suggests a mental illness, and it is not the first suggestion of mental illness in the shooter,” the Florida Republican said during an appearance on “Wake Up America,” declining to commit further on that possibility, “because I think it’s unfair.”

But, Dunn added, the shootings point more to “mental instability than any division of population in Leon County.”

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