FSU students share nightmare on social media
As a gunman ran around Florida State University, students took to their phones to share their experience.
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Blair Stokes tweeted Thursday morning that she had survived a school shooting and added that the Florida State University community was unbelievably strong.
Stokes was one of the students who tweeted the shooting live. Ten hours earlier, she sent a terrifying tweet.
"Guy at library with gun."
Stokes said she was shaking.
I "don't wanna die tonight." There were police officers with "big guns running around outside," she said.
"Someone shot."
Police were clearing floors.
"Gunman caught."
But not before he shot three people. Police officers were escorting students out of the building. Stokes was still in shock.
"Cannot believe any of this. It's stuff you see on TV. At other schools. But it's here now."
Stokes and other students were forced to wait for the scene to clear. About 4 a.m., she and the others were free to go home, she said. Stokes took a selfie that her loved ones will never forget.
"I'm safe and sound and home ... The love and support of the Florida State community is so real tonight."
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'BOOK STOPS BULLET'
Jason Derfuss shared on Facebook that the shooter targeted him first.
"The shot I heard behind me, I did not feel, nor did it hit me at all," Derfuss said. :"He was about 5 feet from me, but he hit my books Books one minute earlier I had checked out of the library."
Derfuss shared pictures of the damaged books. One of them was a book from the "Great Medieval Thinkers" Oxford series on "John Wyclif," the English philosopher and theologian.
TEXT TO LOVED ONE
David Sillick got a text message from his daughter that no father should ever get.
He shared it on Twitter. It said, "there is a man with a gun in the library. I love you."
Sillick's daughter called him to tell him she made it out safely, but he was rattled by the text and the call.
MORNING AFTER
FSU student Alexandra Magoulas heard the gun shots, and told reporters that she was about 50 feet away from the lobby where the shooting took place.
About 10:30 a.m., she posted a picture on Facebook that read "FSU United." Her friends posted messages of support.
"I'm so glad you're OK! I'm so panicked," Chelsea Ogugua said.
Alessandra Raffa said she was very happy that she was safe. One of the victims remained in critical condition Thursday morning. Two others were stable.
"So sorry you had to go through that ... So brave girl!" Natalie Mathews said.