The gunman who shot up the Florida State University library sent packages to eight friends before police shot and killed him on Thursday, USA Today reported.
One of the packages from Myron May, a graduate of FSU, was delivered in Texas. The FBI is investigating the deliveries.
"People were a little afraid. Why did he choose us?" Joe Paul of Alexandria, Va., told WSB-TV, Atlanta. "That's a lingering question. Why us?"
Authorities say that the packages that May mailed may contain journals and a video. May was killed by police officers after he shot two students and a library employee.
A friend who attended school with May and got closer to him while they were both living in Texas said the shooter sent him a Facebook message before the incident at FSU. May worked as an associated at the law firm Andrews Kurth after graduating from Texas Tech law school in 2009.
"It clicked," Paul said. "I said, 'Wait a minute. He sent a message to us all about a letter he was going to be sending us, or a package, to all of us to arrive Friday.' This is all connected. "
Before he became a lawyer, May was a child in the foster care system, but he had recently gone so far downhill that his ex-girlfriend called police and told them she feared for his life because he was acting very strangely. Abigail Taunton, May's foster mother, said she is shocked by what her son had done, according to ABC.
Two of the students sustained non-life threatening injuries while one is still in critical condition.
