13 things about Florida State University alum Dr. Myron May

Dr. Myron De’Shawn May was an alumnus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, United States. The university was established on January 24, 1851.

BIOGRAPHY

May was an American attorney and cross country runner who lived in Wewahitchka, Gulf County, Florida. He spent his childhood in Dayton, Ohio, USA and grew up poor.

Danielle Nixon, a pediatrician from Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA, dated May. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. As a teenager, he moved from Dayton to Florida.
2. He was licensed to practice law in New Mexico and Texas, USA.
3. He and Nixon connected on Match.com.
4. He once owned a $200,000 house in Katy, Texas.
5. His 15-month relationship with Nixon ended because of his mental disorder, according to her.
6. In 1996, he started living in David Taunton and Abigail Taunton‘s foster home.
7. In December 2005, he graduated with honors from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
8. From July 2006 to May 2009, he attended the Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock, Texas.
9. From January 2010 to October 2011, he worked in the Andrews Kurth law firm in Houston, Texas.
10. From November 2011 to April 2012, he worked on labor cases representing employers at Littler Mendelson law firm’s office in Houston.
11. From June 2012 to May 2013, he worked in the Kennard Law Firm, which was founded by Alfonso Kennard.
12. In 2013, he planned to relocate from Houston to Las Cruces.
13. In 2014, he died at age 31.

TIMELINE

“I do not want to die in vain,” May said in a voicemail he left for an acquaintance hours before his death. He was planning to take the Florida bar exam in February 2015.

2013

• In May 2013, he left the Kennard Law Firm with a plan to moved to Denver, Colorado, USA to start a business.

2014

• From January 2014, he was hired as a prosecutor for the Doña Ana County district attorney’s office.
• On March 21, 2014, he turned 31.
• In April 2014, he and Nixon ran in a Color Dash 5K.
• In May 2014, he and Nixon attended a wedding in Tallahassee where he was a groomsman.
• In June 2014, he represented the Doña Ana County district attorney’s office at a cancer fundraiser called CARE.
• In July 2014, he, Nixon and Nixon’s parents visited Truth or Consequences, Sierra County, New Mexico.
• On September 25, 2014, he checked himself into the Mesilla Valley Hospital in Las Cruces for a mental health evaluation.
• On September 29, 2014, he was released from the Mesilla Valley Hospital.
• On October 6, 2014, he resigned from his job as a prosecutor for the Doña Ana County district attorney’s office by leaving a seven-line letter of resignation on his desk without warning.
• On October 7, 2014, police officers were called to Nixon’s residence and she reported an incident where he had handed her a piece of his car that he claimed was a camera that police had put in it.
• On November 6, 2014, he posted on his Facebook account that he moved back home to Wewahitchka. That day, he appeared on David and Abigail’s doorstep in Wewahitchka without warning and asked for a place to stay. The couple let him stay in a guest cottage on the property and agreed to pay him $500 a week to help in the their business office.
• On November 12, 2014, he showed David a 15-minute video about a conspiracy theory detailing government technology capable of spying on people.
• On November 15, 2014, he spent the night at his uncle Wallace Freeman‘s house.
• On November 16, 2014, he was supposed to attend church services in David and Abigail’s gymnasium but he did not show up. That day, he left his uncle’s house to visit friends in Tallahassee.
• On November 17, 2024, Abigail sent him a text message to make sure he was okay and he replied, “I’m fine, I’m sorry. Ms Abby. I needed to get away. I’ll be back.”
• At around 12:30 a.m. on November 20, 2014, he used a a .380 semiautomatic pistol to open fire at the Stozier Library of Florida State University, shooting three people including Farhan “Ronny” Ahmed, then 21. Police officers fatally shot him after he refused to drop his weapon.

2015

• On March 24, 2015, Mother’s Love Publishing and Enterprises published Renee Pittman‘s book “The Targeting of Myron May: Florida State University Gunman: Asst. DA Pushed Over the Edge (Mind Control Technology Book Series)”.