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FSU One Year Later: Victims Still Trying to Heal

November 18th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda

Friday marks the one year anniversary of the shooting at the FSU Strozier library that injured three. Today, Mike Vasilinda has the story of how two people who could have died next to each other that day last year are handling the fact they survived.

Nathan Scott can still be found sitting behind the same desk he and co worker Paige McPhadden hid under when the library at Florida State was attacked a year ago.

“I said no,no,no and that’s when I got shot” Nathan told us.

Security video shows Nathan being shot, then the gun pointed at Paige. It went click click click…but didn’t fire.

“I’ll never forget the smell of the gun powder” says Paige.

Paige, in her first and only interview since the shooting, confides she has been diagnosed with PTSD and is seeing a counselor.

“Some nights I sleep, some nights I don’t. But it’s something I gotta live with” she says.

Nathan says he is about to leave the library for an engineering job.

“My life hasn’t changed a whole lot, which is, I guess,a good thing. I got pretty lucky I think with the extent of my injuries. They could have been a lot more serious” says the engineering School graduate.

Paige changed jobs in August and is hoping to take the MCAT or Medical School Admission Test. She says she thinks about her brush with death almost every day.

“Life is short and that day brought that to my realization. Like I realized that you have to live every day like it’s your last” says Paige.

Neither Nathan or Paige say they hold a grudge against the man who tried to kill them.

“Basically, he thought that if he carried out this action, the voices in his head would stop”  says Nathan.

From Paige:  “People suffer from mental illnesses everyday. And, he just snapped.”

Both are second amendment advocates and neither says their views about gun ownership have changed.

Nathan says he doesn’t own a gun. Paige has a concealed carry permit and does. Both are unsure if being armed last November would have made a difference.

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