Hours before Myron May strode into a Florida State University library with murder on his mind, he left a series of chilling voicemails saying he was being attacked by an “energy weapon” and had a scheme to expose it “once and for all.”

Those messages, along with mysterious packages that May mailed to friends before he shot three people, were the culmination of what seemed to be a mental breakdown several months in the making.

Two months ago, the promising young prosecutor went to police and told them that people were watching him through cameras planted in his apartment and talking about him through the walls. Last month, May abruptly resigned from his job, and a worried ex-girlfriend told police he suffered from mental problems that were getting worse.

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May, an FSU alumnus, was killed by police early Thursday morning. On Friday, May’s three victims were identified as Elijah Velez, 18; library employee Nathan Scott, 30; and Farhan Ahmed, 21. Velez was grazed by a bullet and treated at the scene and released. Scott, who was shot in the leg, was released from the hospital Friday night. Ahmed remained hospitalized in critical condition Friday evening.

Meanwhile, FSU President John Thrasher and Provost Garnett Stokes greeted students at the library doors Friday morning as classes resumed.

“Normalcy is a funny word, and I don’t know that we’ll get back to it or ever forget,” Thrasher said. “But at least I think from a standpoint of some of the things that went on yesterday, I think our campus is alive and well and working toward the goals of being a great university.”

At the time May began showing signs of mental instability, he was an associate trial attorney in the felony division of the Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Las Cruces, N.M. He’d previously worked in the area as a public defender.

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District Attorney Mark D’Antonio said his colleagues saw no sign of May’s mental decline.

“I nearly fell off the chair,” D’Antonio said Friday, describing when he learned of the shooting. “It was as shocking to me as it could have been. The staff took it hard. He was very well-liked.”

May’s visit to the police station in Las Cruces happened on Sept. 7.

“He stated that he can constantly hear voices coming through the walls specifically talking about actions he was doing,” an officer wrote in an incident report. As an example, May cited a time he had climbed out of a bubble bath and began applying lotion.

“He specifically stated he heard voices say, ‘Did you see that, he never puts lotion on,’ ” the report states.

Police said there was nothing they could do, and May responded that he planned to hire a private investigator and wanted his report documented. More