Cops shoot to kill in Florida campus havoc suspected gunman which was lying face- Gunman shot dead down at the top of an access ramp just outside the library. A grey baseball cap amid student panic lay near his head. Students who had been in the library described a chaotic scene where they ALLAHASSEEs Horida State University heard shots, followed by students either poll a gunman at the campus barricading themselves in parts of the library early yesterday shooting that library or taking cover. left students wounded as hundreds John Ehab, a sophomore from Tampa, three of inside the library fled or took said he was on the library's third floor others when he heard multiple gunshots. cover in panie. officers confronted the gunman and Everyone heard them," he said People took cover in the book aisles to ordered him to drop his weapon, but he fired one shot at them and they unleashed hide from the gunman in case he came on a volley of shots. Tallahassee police to the floor, Mr Ehab said "You never think something like this spokesman Dave Northway said. while police did not say ifthe wounded is going to happen to you until you have were shot by the gunman, senior Sarah to react in that situation when someone Evans from Miami said she was inside is screaming there is a gun in the build the library and heard a male student say ing. I ran for my life said Allison Kope a freshman. he had been shot. When she looked at him, he was on "I ran right out the back door. My the ground with blood spreading on his laptop and everything is still in there It was shock. It was just instinct. You trouser leg. Northway said authorities did not don't think about anything else, you believe there were any other threats just goe Freshman Nikolai Hernandez said related to the incident Shortly after 4 am, a loud tone he was in his dorm room across from sounded across the campus followed by the library when he heard five or six an announcement that the campus was rapid gunshots. It was a consecutive bop, bop bop "all clear. At the same time, authorities allowed bop, bop" Hernandez said. hundreds of students who had been shep- I was supposed to be in the library. had a paper to do and I got a little bit lazy herded into a classroom building next to Strozier Library, a multistorey building in and decided not to do it Florida State President John Thrasher the centre of the Tallahassee campus, to decided to cancel classes yesterday for the return to their homes. universiy Hours after the shooting, detectives entire campus, although the could be seen inspecting the body ofthe self would remain open. AP