Two Injured from Gunshots in Florida State University Shooting

Amaury · Nov 20, 2014

@Cat~, @Roxam, were you guys affected by this?

Source: ABC News

Published: November 19, 2014 (PST) / November 20, 2014 (EST)

Well, that's quite a wake-up call, but honestly, I am getting tired of these shootings. People need to get over themselves and stop thinking that they have the right to kill people just because their girlfriend or boyfriend broke up with them, just because they have a grudge against the university, just because, etc. It's getting old.

ABC News said:

At least two people were injured by gunshots on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee early this morning, officials with Tallahassee Memorial Health Care confirmed to ABC News.

The patients' conditions are not known, and it's unclear whether those injured are students.

The university sent emergency alerts to students, classifying the incident as a "dangerous situation" and telling students to seek shelter.

Police have not released additional details on the incident.

Student Toni Haywood, a junior, says she was on the second floor of the Strozier Library at about 12:30 a.m., when she says she heard gunshots.

Minutes later, people on the first floor ran upstairs, telling students to hide, Haywood said.

"The police came on the intercom and said that there was a gunman in the lobby, and I think he said two people had been shot," Haywood told ABC News in a text message. “He said to stay away from doors and windows and to stay where we were. We all waited then the police came back on and said the gunman was in custody and to stay where we were.”

Haywood and other students remained hunkered down an hour later, waiting as police cleared the floors of the library.
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. : tale_wind · Nov 20, 2014

I hate that my reaction to these has become "Oh, another school shooting. Anyway..." If that doesn't tell you how much of a problem we have with these in the US, I don't know what will.

It baffles me how, in light of all the school shootings that have happened recently, people want to keep the gun laws we currently have. Yes, we have a constitutional right to bear arms, but we also have a right to life and safety.

Iskandar · Nov 20, 2014

Highlandeɼ said: ↑

I hate that my reaction to these has become "Oh, another school shooting. Anyway..." If that doesn't tell you how much of a problem we have with these in the US, I don't know what will.
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I skipped over this thread because of that exact mindset a few times. Every day there's another shooting, for one reason or another, and it's just someone throwing a giant tantrum hoping for attention

Amaury · Nov 20, 2014

Shooter has been confirmed as Myron May, an alumnus and attorney, who also graduated from Texas Tech University's law school.

See the video here.

ABC News said:

A Florida State University alumnus and attorney shot three people at the school's library early Thursday before being killed by police, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

The official said the shooter was Myron May, who also graduated from Texas Tech University's law school. The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to release the name.

The shooting happened about 12:30 a.m., with the sound of about half a dozen gunshots sending hundreds of students who had been up all night studying for exams scrambling for cover in the book aisles and barricading themselves in with desks amid screams from classmates.

"I ran for my life," said Allison Kope, a freshman from Cocoa Beach, who was on the library's first floor. "I ran right out the backdoor. My laptop and everything is still in there. It was shock. It was just instinct. You don't think about anything else, you just go."

Two people are hospitalized, one in critical condition and one in good condition, and one was released.

May's Facebook page shows he posted mostly Bible verses and links to conspiracy theories about the government reading people's minds.

Abigail Taunton, who runs a foster home in the Florida Panhandle, told AP that May was staying at a guest house she owns.

"He's just a boy our kids grew up with that we let stay in one of our guest houses for a while," she said. "He's moving back home from Texas and we were trying to help him get on his feet."

Records show May was licensed to practice law in Texas and New Mexico. Taunton said he was planning to take the Florida bar exam in February.

"We're just all astounded. We had no idea that he would do something like this," Taunton said. "Obviously, he was not in his right mind."

She said she had known him since he was about 13 or 14 and that he ran cross country with her kids and stayed at her house a lot. She said he lived with his grandmother after coming out of a "bad situation" with his parents.

"He was having some financial issues and moved back home and decided he'd come back to Florida to work," she said. "My heart's broken. In a million years I wouldn't have thought he'd do something like this. He was struggling, having decided that what he was doing out there was not good. He had some issues and just decided he'd come home."

Police and FSU officials called the shooting an "isolated incident," but have not released many details, including how far May made it into Strozier Library. FSU's campus is located less than a mile from downtown Tallahassee and the state Capitol.

"This person just for whatever reason produced a handgun and then began shooting students in the library," FSU Police Chief David Perry said.

The shooting prompted a campus alert that urged students to take shelter and stay away from doors and windows.

Sarah Evans, a senior from Miami, said she was inside the library and heard a male student say he had been shot. When she looked at him, he was on the ground with blood spreading on his pants leg.

Tallahassee and Florida State University police confronted the gunman just outside the library that sits in the middle of the campus and ordered him to drop his handgun, but he fired a shot at them and they unleashed a volley of shots, Tallahassee Police spokesman Dave Northway said.

Hours after the shooting, detectives could be seen inspecting the body of May, who was lying face down at the top of a ramp just outside the library. A baseball cap lay nearby.

Florida State President John Thrasher, who took office earlier this month, was in New York City at the time of the shooting but has returned to campus.

Gov. Rick Scott had been in South Florida for a meeting with other Republican governors. He returned to Tallahassee where he met with Thrasher.

"The police investigation will answer many of the questions we are asking today, but just like any tragedy the ultimate question of why, we'll never have an answer that satisfies those who loved ones have been injured," Scott said.
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Meilin Lee · Nov 21, 2014

So one of the victims turned out to be related to a friend of my mom, and he's currently in critical condition. No words can describe my anger at what happened, and how much I'm sick of such things being considered normal.

Amaury · Nov 21, 2014

Roxam said: ↑

So one of the victims turned out to be related to a friend of my mom, and he's currently in critical condition. No words can describe my anger at what happened, and how much I'm sick of such things being considered normal.
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Wish him a speedy recovery!

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