Florida State University shooting

On November 20, 2014, a gunman, identified as 31-year-old Myron May, shot an employee and two students at Strozier Library on the campus of the Florida State University shortly after midnight. May was a lawyer and an alumnus of the university, who believed that the U.S. government was watching him. He was fatally shot by responding police officers after he started shooting at them outside Strozier Library. After the shooting, it was revealed that May had mailed a total of ten packages to friends throughout the country beforehand; the contents of the packages are unknown.^[1][2][3]

Before the attack, May shared on Facebook a Google search with the words "Targeted individuals" typed into the search box. He had also posted a video clip from the television show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura with a man who claimed to have "put together the technology that allows the government to transmit thoughts and voices into the heads of Americans."^[4] In a series of communications and phone calls, May told his friends that believed "stalkers" were harassing him from the government, and a "direct energy weapon" was being used to hurt him. He told friends to expect packages that would "expose" the conspiracy that tormented him.^[5]

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