TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) - Just after midnight on Thursday, FSU students received an alert about a "dangerous situation" on campus. Little did these students know that a man had entered one of the busiest buildings on campus with a gun.
Myron May, who graduated from Florida State University in 2005, entered Strozier Library, the school's main library, just after midnight. May shot over 30 rounds inside and outside Strozier, leaving three students injured. Police say that May wouldn't surrender and as a result, he was killed outside the library.
According to police, around 300 to 400 students were in the library at the time.
FSU Senior Sarah Evans was on the first floor of Strozier, where she heard someone yell out that they had been shot. Evans said, "The employees were rushing in looking very frantic. I heard a man yelling that he had been shot. I saw a man bleeding."
"It was pure shock and terror," she said.
Students who were not on campus at the time were left to wonder what happened, but because of social media, word spread that a shooter had entered Strozier Library.
FSU graduate student Robert Williamson said, "I was in my apartment, and I got alerts, thought maybe the system was broken. Even when I thought maybe it's an emergency, I didn't think it was this. It's tragic. Never thought it could happen here."
