A shooting broke out in the Florida State University library on Thursday, injuring three people and sending hundreds into hiding behind bookshelves, CNN reported.
"There has been a shooting in the library, stay where you are," said a man speaking over the loudspeaker, according to a cell phone video posted online. "We will be coming to each floor and clearing it, and taking care of anybody."
One of the victims, Nathan Scott, was shot in the leg, but is in good condition at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare hospital. Another victim is in critical condition while another was grazed by a bullet and was cleared at the scene.
"The suspect did not comply with the commands, and actually shot at one of the officers," said Tallahassee police spokesman David Northway. "They returned fire, and the subject was killed."
The man was later identified as Myron May, 31, who graduated from the university in 2005. He practiced law in Texas and New Mexico after graduating from law school at Texas Tech in 2009. He had recently moved back to Florida.
Police said that May had written about how he was scared government agencies were coming for him, according to journals that were recovered.
"Mr. May was in a state of crisis," said Michael DeLeo, the police chief in Tallahassee, according to Reuters.
The first emergency call about there being a shooter in the library came at 12:25 a.m. May was said to be down outside of the Library by 12:27 a.m.
The shooting comes at a time when gun safety and control is a controversial, heated topic within American discourse.
"Another campus shooting. Yet we still haven't started even a dialogue on keeping guns from criminals and the mentally ill," Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida said on his Twitter page.
