A Florida State University student has been left paralyzed after a campus shooting on Thursday when a gunman opened fire in the university’s Strozier library.

Farham “Ronny” Ahmed was one of three people injured during the shooting. He suffered three gun shots, and one of the bullets struck his spine, which will leave him paralyzed from the waist down, according to USA Today.

In a news conference yesterday at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, his sister Farhana Ahmed said Farham, who is 21, had been studying for final exams. He was a biomedical engineering student with about a year and a half left until he would graduate.

She said that her brother “immediately” knew something was wrong when a bullet struck his spine.

His condition at the hospital improved, as he was upgraded from critical to serious condition. Doctors at the hospital said the bullet had severely damaged his spinal cord.

His sister said that despite the tragedy, at least “he’s alive” and the family is “so grateful” that he survived the incident.

The two other individuals injured during the shooting — 30-year-old Nathan Scott, a library worker, and 18-year-old Elijah Velez, a freshman — were shot in the leg and grazed by a bullet, respectively. Their injuries were not considered serious.

Police shot and killed the 31-year-old FSU graduate who opened fire, Myron May. Friends report he had shown signs of mental illness.

Ahmed hails from Oralndo and graduated from Lake Highland Prepatory School. He had done volunteer work with animals and always had an interested in science, participating often in science fairs and ultimately leading him to becoming a biomedical engineer. His sister said that the university is “100 percent committed” to make sure he gets back into biomedical engineering to fulfill his dream.

The president of FSU visited Ahmed in the hospital on Friday and pledged to make sure the school does everything it can to support him.

An online fundraising effort to help take care of his needs had raised more than $86,000 as of early today.