FSU gunman mailed 8 packages; 1 reaches Texas

TAMPA — Eight people who knew the gunman who opened fire on Florida State University students say they are expecting packages from him, one of his last acts before police shot him dead early Thursday.

One of the packages from Florida State alumnus Myron May was delivered in Texas, a law-enforcement official said Friday. And the FBI is investigating.

"People were a little afraid. Why did he choose us?" Joe Paul of Alexandria, Va., told WSB-TV, Atlanta. "That's a lingering question. Why us?"

The package and others that May mailed before his death could contain a video and journals, authorities said. Police officers killed May after he shot two students and a library worker.

The official who confirmed the delivery of the package spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to release the information, according to the Associated Press.

Paul, who attended Florida State with May and got to know him better while both were living in Houston, said May sent him a Facebook message before the shooting. May graduated from Texas Tech law school in 2009 then came to Houston to work as an associate with the law firm Andrews Kurth.

May's most recent job was at the New Mexico District Attorney's Office, where he abruptly turned in a letter of resignation in October.

"It clicked," Paul said. "I said, 'Wait a minute. He sent a message to us all about a letter he was going to be sending us, or a package, to all of us to arrive Friday.' This is all connected. "

Paul immediately called police and was told to contact authorities the moment his package arrives in the mail. He wasn't told what the package contains but suspects that it is May's manifesto.

"Perhaps it's an answer to the 'why?' which is often one of the things that is missing from situations like this," Paul told the Atlanta TV station. "You wonder, 'Why would you do this?' "

Contributing: The Associated Press; Grace White, KHOU-TV, Houston