EAST LANSING, Michigan (AP) — Police have identified a 43-year-old man who killed three students and injured five at Michigan State University and removed several others from the campus on Tuesday following a tip from the public. He said a clash with police occurred miles away. He fatally shot himself.
Investigators were trying to figure out why Anthony McRae opened fire at Barkey Hall and his MSU Union just before 8am.
30:30 pm on Monday. The shooting led to the campus being cordoned off, and the search ended after about three hours.
“We have absolutely no idea what the motives were,” said Chris Rozman, deputy chief of campus police, adding that McRae is neither a student nor an employee of Michigan State University. Rosman said all the casualties were students. Five people remain in critical condition at Sparrow Hospital, Denny Martin holds back tears at her Dr. press conference.
Michigan graduate student Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said at the briefing, “Our Spartan community was rocked today.
President Joe Biden promised her support on her phone, she said. “We mourn the loss of our beautiful souls and pray for those who continue to fight for their lives. .
Michigan has approximately 50,000 students, including 19,000 of his on campus. Students hid where they could Monday night as hundreds of police searched the campus of East Lansing, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit. Meanwhile, police released photos of the suspect, and “vigilant citizens” recognized him in the Lansing area, Rosman said.
“That’s exactly what we wanted to achieve with the release of this image. We didn’t know where he was at the time,” Rosman said.
Rosman said police confronted McRae in an industrial area about five miles from campus, where he committed suicide.
By May 2021, McRae was on probation for 18 months for possessing a concealed weapon that was loaded without a permit, according to the state’s Department of Corrections. Dominik Molotky said he learned about Cuban history around the age of eight.
At 3 p.m., when he and other students hear gunshots outside the classroom. He told ABC’s Good Morning America that the gunman broke in seconds later and fired three or four more shots while the student crouched and hid.
“Then we broke the window and I ran out of there, then booked and went back to my apartment,” he said. I didn’t know if the bullet hit the student.
Her sophomore Claire Papoulias told NBC’s “Today” how she and another student escaped through the window of a history class after the shooter entered through the back door and opened fire. explained. “There was a boy in my class who was waiting outside the window and was helping people by catching them,” she said. I remember running hard with my phone in hand.”
Ryan Kunkel, 22, drew his attention to the shooting in an email from his university when he was attending his building engineering class. Kunkel and about 13 other students turned off the lights and pretended that “there’s a gunman right outside the door.”
Zimbo said the woman went to find her friend’s car, but he returned to his SUV, covered himself with a blanket and he hid for three hours.
