a day later mass shooting on campus Michigan State University officials are investigating the cause of the stampede that left three students dead and five others injured Monday night.
The gunman, who according to police had no known connection to the compound in East Lansing, Michigan, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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the victims: Brian Fraser and Ariel Anderson, both from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Alexandria Werner, from Clausen, Michigan, died in mass shooting Monday night, according to a MSU Police News Releases, Werner was remembered by Clausen Public Schools superintendent Billy Shellenberger for her kindness, positivity and being “everything you would want in your daughter or friend”.
MSU Response: The first reports of firing came at 8:18 p.m. ET from Berkey Hall, an academic building on the north end of campus. According to MSU Interim Deputy Police Chief Chris Roseman, officers responded to the building within minutes and found multiple shooting victims, two of whom died. He said that soon after, another shooting was reported at the nearby Student Union building. This is where the third killed victim was found. As news of the mass shooting spread, anxiety spread across campus as the gunman was on the run. MSU interim president Teresa Woodruff said a shelter-in-place order went into effect.
Goosebumps scene: The deadly stampede forced students to save their lives by jumping from windows. Graham Diedrich, a graduate student at Michigan State University, recalled being in the library and furniture use Locked himself in a room during a stampede with other students. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said her children, who are MSU students, are “shaken” after the shooting.
gunman: Authorities are still trying to determine what prompted 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae to go on a shooting rampage. According to a source familiar with the investigation, McRae had a two-page note in his bag that referred to other shootings. His father, Michael MacRaeold cnn her son turned sourFollowing her mother’s death from a stroke two years earlier, isolated and “wickedly angry”. The gunman’s sister told CNN that her brother was socially isolated. McRae also has a criminal history with weapons, and police say he had a “history of mental health issues.”