A Michigan State University Student Shooting Manhunt and Shelter-in-Place Orders for a Second Shooting Prior to the Five-Year Anniversary

A mass shooting at Michigan State University left three people dead and five others critically wounded Monday evening, triggering an hourslong manhunt and shelter-in-place orders before the suspect died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

Footage showed students fleeing for their lives. People smashing windows to save their classmates from a shooting. Students blockaded themselves in dorms, built barricades in the library, cowered in restrooms, or just ran for their lives after their cellphones buzzed with a “shots fired” warning from the university police force.

The attack took place a day before the five-year anniversary of the shooting at the school, and marked the 67th mass shooting in 2023, which does not include the shooter.

The FBI is looking into the history of this person in an attempt to understand what brought him to this moment in this community. The community is struggling to comprehend why they are the latest in what is a uniquely American experience, and understanding of a mass shooting in their midst.

The suspect, who had died from a self-shooting wound, was contacted by law enforcement off campus, and they thought he had killed himself.

The emergency alert went out to the students shortly after Chris Trush saw people run out of the Union building, which is a congregation spot for students.

Every student staff member immediately took action when they saw something that wasn’t right on the campus. They sheltered in place and did so for hours, according to the interim president.

As shelter-in-place orders were in effect Monday evening, another student, Gabe Treutel, said he and his dorm mates hunkered down and turned to a local police scanner for information.

The lounge area of Campbell Hall on the north campus has about 30 people in it, and another student told CNN that she was in it.

“We’re not learning very much,” Charles told CNN’s Erin Burnett earlier in the night, saying she did not hear any gunshots herself, but that some of her co-workers heard shots.

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The university will be moving into emergency operations for the next two days and students will see a constant police presence as investigators investigate multiple scenes, despite officials saying there is no threat anymore.

The entire school day will be canceled tomorrow due to a police note saying, “please don’t come to campus tomorrow.”

“We want to wrap our warm arms around every family that is touched by this tragedy and give them the peace that passeth understanding in moments like this… we will change over time,” Woodruff said. We can’t allow this to happen again.

The mass shooting that took place at a high school in Florida one day before the assault at Michigan State resulted in the closing of all East Lansing Public Schools Tuesday.

Tonight has been terrible. All of the students in the region have seen horrible things happen. Schools have been closed due to weather. This has affected our whole region, our whole community. It’s affected families, everyone across our community,” Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said.

“This has been the worst night that we have had as a family,” Rozman said. “We are relieved to no longer have an active threat on campus, while we realize that there is so much healing that will need to take place after this,” he added.

MSU Vice President for Public Safety and Chief of Police Marlon Lynch said responding to the shooting was a “monumental task” due in part to the size of the campus.

“We have 400 buildings on campus and over 5,300 acres and part of the process of the response that we had is that we were able to divide and organize to be methodical in the search process and obtain evidence and share as it comes through. But with a university our size and the areas that we are responsible for, that becomes a task,” Lynch said.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/us/michigan-state-university-shots-fired-tuesday/index.html

The Michigan State Spartans Revealed by a Surviving School Student: ‘It Was Like Reliving Oxford All Over Again’

The two buildings at the center of Monday evening’s shootings are accessible to the general public during business hours, police said in an early morning news conference Tuesday.

The Michigan State Spartans had a difficult time coming to terms with their nightmare after the killings on Monday, when a young Parkland survivor counseled them on how to deal with their future nightmares.

A woman told a station her daughter and other classmates were also survivors of the November 30, 2001 shooting at Oxford High School which was about 80 miles away from theMSU campus.

“We now have a complete generation that has grown up with this, many times over, from elementary all the way up to now, they live with this the entire time,” Bacon added.

“It was like reliving Oxford all over again,” said Ferguson, who had been on the phone with her daughter when the young woman received texts about the latest mass shooting.

Ferguson said her daughter had started attending MSU about one month ago. The mother said that it was “really, really crazy” to relive a horrible experience and her daughter was “unbelievably terrified”.

A young person in a sweatshirt is shown in footage from the scene of Monday’s shooting.

“As a representative of Oxford, Michigan, I cannot believe that I’m here again doing this 15 months later,” Slotkin said during a news conference Tuesday. I am angry that we have to have a press conference to talk about the fact that our children are being killed in school.

She stated that children in Michigan are living through their second school shooting in a year and a half. If this is not a wake-up call to do something, I don’t know what is.”

There are many thoughts that are running through my head right now, after I was on Michigan State’s campus during the tragedy.

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Even after more deaths, nothing will be done because of the tortured politics of gun control and the splits among Americans about firearms.

Parents send their kids off to college worried about academics, alcohol use and whether or not they will fit in. They have to worry about mass shootings. Can a nation that can’t guarantee its kids are safe at school now not keep them safe at college?

“They are terrified, their parents are terrified,” Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin told CNN on Tuesday after meeting survivors and family members from Michigan State, which is in her district. “It’s terrorizing and we either do something about something that is terrorizing our population, or we don’t care about it.”

When her children went to Michigan State a year-and-a-half ago, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel thought she would never see something like this again.

Every child is familiar with active shooter drills. When a parent drops their child off at class, they know that it could lead to worse things. One of the only mercies of Covid-19 school shutdowns was that fear went away for a while.

A previous generation of students was marked by the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 that killed 12 students and a teacher, and the Virginia Tech massacre in which 32 people died in 2007.

Billy Shellenbarger, the school’sadministrator, remembers Alexandria Verner as “everything you would want your daughter or friend to be.” The two students who were killed, Brian Fraser and Arielle Anderson, were both graduates of the same high school.

Jon Dean is the Supt. of Grosse Pointe Public Schools and he asked “how is it possible” that this happened in the first place. It touched our community twice.

It is now cliché to say that the usual rituals of regret and sympathizement played out in the capital after a shooting but without any expectation that politicians would act to stop it from happening again.

President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators did pass the most significant gun safety law in decades last year, though it failed to ban any weapons and fell well short of what the White House, gun control advocates and most Americans want to see. The Republican majority in the House means there is no chance of future gun control legislation.

While firearms reform activists hope that the Democratic sweep of the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature in Michigan willopen the possibility of significant changes to the law, gun politics remain tricky for legislators in swing states who want to cling onto power.

Biden, speaking at a conference of county executives in Washington, issued one of his increasingly frequent condemnations of mass shootings, bemoaning “a family’s worst nightmare that’s happening far too often in this country.”

“We have to do something to stop gun violence ripping apart our communities,” he said, and renewed his call for an assault weapon ban that everyone knows had no chance of passing even in a Democratic-run Congress.

Given the paralysis of gun politics, maybe it’s on individuals to act. Several recent cases of mass shootings have appeared to have a common factor: the disturbed mental state of an eventual perpetrator who had access to guns.

But there is rarely any concentrated effort from Republicans in Washington to spend the vast amounts of money needed to overhaul mental health services. In the states, Republican governors and legislatures are busily loosening already lax guns laws in a way that are likely to lead to even easier access to weapons.

While police are still searching for a motive for the Michigan State gunman’s rampage, his father, Michael McRae, said that after his mother died several years ago, he became “more and more bitter … angry and bitter … evil angry.” The brother was a criminal with weapons and was socially isolated, his sister told CNN. Police said he “had a history of mental health issues.”

More pro-active action by loved ones may allow for some red flag laws that can allow guns to be taken from the mentally ill. People should act when they see relatives that are mentally unstable, according to a former FBI senior official.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/gun-violence-michigan-state-mass-shooting/index.html

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