Scene of Florida State shooting captured on social media


UPDATE:  Authorities have identified the three students who were shot Thursday when a gunman stormed into a library on the Florida State University campus and opened fire, WFTV reports.

The three victims were identified as Elijah Velez, 18, who suffered a graze wound and was treated and released, Nathan Scott, 30, and Farhan Ahmed, 21,who both remain hospitalized.

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The Associated Press reported that two people were being treated at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.

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Freshman Nikolai Hernandez told the AP that he heard five or six gunshots from his dorm room, which is near a library on campus.

"It was a consecutive bop, bop, bop, bop, bop," Hernandez said. "It makes me definitely a little bit nervous. I was supposed to be in the library. I had a paper to do and I got a little bit lazy and decided not to do it."

University officials sent a campus telephone alert warning students of a "dangerous situation" and urging them to take shelter.