A gunshot tore brothers apart decades ago. The FSU shooting split them up for good

Ricardo and Robert Morales parted ways in 1982 after a gunshot killed their father, a Cuban-American exile turned CIA informant in Miami known as "Monkey," and tore their family apart.

Ricardo and Robert Morales parted ways in 1982 after a gunshot killed their father, a Cuban-American exile turned CIA informant in Miami known as "Monkey," and tore their family apart.

It took over three decades for the brothers to reconnect after finding each other online. But on Thursday, a second gunshot divided the brothers for good. 

Robert, 57, was one of the two people killed in a shooting at Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee, according to Ricardo. Five others were injured by gunshots.

"It's just eating me up inside that this is the way people in my family are going out," Ricardo, 61, who lives in Michigan, said. "He was such a good person. He didn't deserve that."

Robert was working as FSU's dining coordinator and worked in the student union center, where police say the 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner opened fire around noon.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fsu-shooting-victim-robert-morales-rcna201850

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