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Shooter was well-liked but troubled
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida State University alumnus and attorney who shot three people at the school’s library early Thursday believed the government was targeting him for persecution, detailing his thoughts in a journal and in videos detectives obtained, authorities said.Myron May had “expressed fears of being targeted and that he wanted to bring attention to this issue of targeting,” said Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo. “Mr. May was in a state of crisis.”Police killed May, a 2005 graduate who later earned a law degree from Texas Tech University, early Thursday. Officers had responded to a 12:30 a.m. call about shots being fired at the library, where about 450 students were studying.