13 things about Tallahassee, Florida’s Anne-Mari Eriksen

Anne-Mari Eriksen is a citizen of Norway and the United States. In an online profile, she refers to herself as an experienced professional sales manager and store manager.

Eriksen is a resident of Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA and Oslo, Norway. She was born in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida to Norwegian parents Eigil Eriksen and Susan Eriksen‘s daughter.

Tallahassee is around 640 miles away from Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, which is 30 miles (48 km) north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. Fort Lauderdale is home to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport.

In 1996, Susan earned a master’s degree in special education from Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 2007, she graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA with a master’s degree in religious education.

BIOGRAPHY

On August 18, 2000, Anne-Mari gave birth to Christian Gunnar Eriksen. In 2010, his father Christopher Jason “Chris” Ikner married Jessica Ikner.

From 2007 to 2023, Anne-Mari was in custody disputes with Chris. In 2020, their son went before a judge in his U.S. Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps uniform and asked to change his name to Phoenix Ikner.

“He chose the name Phoenix because of its representation of rising from the ashes anew,” a Leon County court document explains. A 10th-grade honor roll student at Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, he cited a “tragic event”on July 28, 2015 when his mother was arrested.

When a Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested Anne-Mari that day, her weight was registered as 180 pounds. She is 5’3″ tall.

On June 14, 2024, Anne-Mari turned 46 and in 2025, her son was accused of mass shooting. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From August 1996 to June 2000, she attended Tallahassee State College in Tallahassee where she earned an associate’s degree in general education.
2. In 2005, she attended The Real Estate School in Tallahassee.
3. From November 2011 to December 2013, he was a store manager at My Kids a La Mode in Tallahassee.
4. From 2013 to 2016, she was a volunteer poll worker at the Leon County Supervisor of Elections in Tallahassee.
5. From December 2014 to March 2015, she was a part-time Bonefish Grill hostess.
6. In 2015, she was arrested on a kidnapping charge after taking Phoenix with her to Norway without permission, a violation of a custody agreement, then included Phoenix as a plaintiff in a lawsuit she filed against Chris, Jessica and Chris’s parents Jerald Lewis Ikner and Sandra “Sandy” McCarver Ikner, asking the court to award her $80,000 for multiple reasons including emotional abuse and psychological harm done to Phoenix during continuous and vicious litigation.
7. In 2016, she was found guilty of removing Phoenix from the state of Florida and failing to return him and a judge dismissed the case she filed against Chris, Jessica, Jerald and Sandy in 2015.
8. From September 2016 to October 2017, she was a Macy’s sales supervisor.
9. From November 2017 to May 2018, she was a Jos. A. Bank assistant store manager.
10. From August 2018 to June 2020, she was a provisional member of the Junior League of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and a sales manager at Macy’s in Aventura, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
11. From September 2020 to June 2021, she was a full-time Macy’s sales manager.
12. From June 2021 to January 2023, she was a David’s Bridal sales manager.
13. From August 2022 to April 2023, she attended Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida where she earned an associate’s degree in health services administration.

TIMELINE

Anne-Mari’s mother Susan lived in Miami before moving to Tallahassee. In August 1997, Susan bought a property in Tallahassee, which she sold in April 2000.

2011

• On September 24, 2011, her father turned 82.

2012

• On June 3, 2012, her father died in Tallahassee.
• On November 4, 2012, she wrote on Facebook, “I am thankful for my son, Christian. He keeps me smiling all the time. He was a special surprise and I am thankful for the things that he has taught me about myself over the years and for making me a proud mommy.”

2013

• On January 2, 2013, she and Phoenix were in Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade County.

2015

• From April 2015 to July 2015, she stayed in Trondheim, Norway and Oslo.
• On July 27, 2015, she was arrested at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, booked into the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee and charged with kidnapping a minor child and removing them from the state of Florida.

2016

• On July 14, 2016, she entered a no contest plea and was ruled guilty of kidnapping a minor child and removing them from the state of Florida. She was sentenced to 200 days in prison with credit for 170 days of time served followed by two years of community control and two more years of probation.

2018

• From June 2018 to July 2018, she was a part-time Boot Barn inventory control specialist.

2022

• On April 7, 2022, she went to Oslo.
• On April 12, 2022, she took to Facebook to share photos of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. She wrote in the caption, “4 generations of Christenings in my family here. My grandfather, dad, me, and my son, Christian Gunnar.”

2023

• In April 2023, she entered Miami Dade College in Miami to pursue a bachelor’s degree in data analytics and business.
• On May 13, 2023, she wrote on Facebook, “Love being my son Christian Gunnar (Phoenix) mother.”
• In July 2023, she obtained a certificate in business industry operations from Miami Dade College.

2024

• From April 2024 to December 2024, she was a Calvin Klein store manager in Oslo.
• On August 17, 2024, she took to Facebook to share a photo of Phoenix with a lengthy caption which included, “MY son turns 20 tomorrow! It is funny to think back 20 years ago to when I was pregnant, bedrest, preparing for the big day in so many ways, the wonderful feeling when I held him in my arms, and he stopped crying right away after a couple other people held him briefly and he screamed his lungs out, but then he just stopped with me.”
• On August 18, 2024, she traveled from the Oslo Airport in Gardermoen, Norway to Tallahassee via Copenhagen, Denmark and Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• On August 22, 2024, she accompanied a patient at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida.
• On September 18, 2024, she went from Oslo to Copenhagen and back to Oslo for a work meeting.

2025

• In January 2025, she joined David’s Bridal in Tallahassee as a store manager.
• At around 11:50 a.m. on April 17, 2025, her son Phoenix allegedly used one of Jessica’s former service pistols to open fire on the main campus of Florida State University, killing two people and injuring five others.