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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Classes are canceled after a gunman opened fire overnight at a library on Florida State University's campus, wounding three students and sending others to hide among bookshelves and block doors with desks before police shot and killed him.
The shooting happened as hundreds of students were studying for exams. It prompted a campus alert that urged students to take shelter and stay away from doors and windows.
Police and FSU officials called the shooting an "isolated incident."
Tallahassee and Florida State University police confronted the gunman just outside the library in the middle of the campus and ordered him to drop his handgun. But a Tallahassee Police spokesman says the man fired at shot at officers and they fired back.
Students who had been in the library described a chaotic scene.
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157-a-19-(Officer David Northway, spokesman, Tallahassee Police Department, at news conference)-"subject was killed"-Tallahassee Police spokesman David Northway says campus and city officers responded to a call that there was a shooting at the Florida State University library. (20 Nov 2014)
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020-a-10-(Brendan Farrington, AP correspondent)-"a local hospital"-AP correspondent Brendan Farrington reports authorities think the gunman acted alone. (20 Nov 2014)
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APPHOTO FLMW102: A Tallahassee police officer talks to several students outside the Strozier Library on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, Fla., where a shooting occurred early Thursday, Nov 20, 2014. The gunman was shot and killed by police officers. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser) (20 Nov 2014)
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