FSU Shooting Lit Up Twitter, Facebook
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - As a gunman went on a shooting rampage inside the Strozier Library at Florida State University, social media played a major role as word spread like wildfire.
Student Blair stokes was studying when the shots rang out. She immediately began to Tweet about what was happening.
She went on to tweet that she was scared, shaking and didn't want to die.
Student Danny Morales tweeted out this.
He then followed it up with this.
Some of the student's parents learned what was going on through social media. One father in Jacksonville said he saw a twee from his daughter which read "There's a man with a gun in the library. I love you."
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Jason Derfuss posted on his Facebook page:
"Earlier tonight there was a shooting at FSU, right as I was leaving Strozier. I didn't know this at the time, but the Shooter targeted me first. The shot I heard behind me I did not feel, nor did it hit me at all. He was about 5 feet from me, but he hit my books. Books one minute earlier I had checked out of the library, books that should not have stopped the bullet. But they did. I learned this about 3 hours after it happened, I never thought to check my bag. I assumed I wasn't a target, I assumed I was fine. The truth is I was almost killed tonight and God intervened. I know conceptually He can do all things, but to physically witness the impossible and to be surrounded by such grace is indescribable. To God be the glory, forever and ever, Amen."
Florida State officials even used Twitter to keep students and parents alike informed as to what was going on.
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A chilling video was taken by an unidentified student inside the library and posted on YouTube was the first to show what the students inside the building were going through.
Three students were injured in the shooting, one critically. The gunman has been identified as Myron May, a former student. He died in a hail of gunfire when he took a shot at police outside the entrance to the library.
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