MI - Active shooter at Michigan State University. Fatalities Reported. 13 Feb '23

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Gunman bought ammunition a few hours before MSU shooting, police find no 'conclusive' motive

Michigan State police revealed a "preliminary" determination there is no "conclusive motive" by 43-year-old Anthony McRae in the Feb. 13 shooting.

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Michigan State University police say they've found "no conclusive motive" for why a gunman targeted the campus, killing three students and injuring five others, on Feb. 13, the agency announced Thursday morning, two months after the shootings.

Police revealed the "preliminary" determination in a statement 73 days after 43-year-old Anthony McRae of Lansing opened fire inside Berkey Hall. McRae purchased ammunition at 4:46 p.m. on Feb. 13, less than three hours before he took a bus to MSU's campus, according to police.

The police update included other new details about what happened that night, including how many shots appeared to have been taken and where they were fired, based on recovered shell casings, as well as how the shooter got to campus and left after the shooting...

 

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New timeline shows where Michigan State shooter went before, during, after fatal shootings

Police on Thursday released new details from their investigation into a shooter’s attack on Michigan State University’s campus that killed three students and injured five others more than two months ago.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Police on Thursday released new details from their investigation into a shooter’s attack on Michigan State University’s campus that killed three students and injured five others more than two months ago.

A gunman opened fire inside two buildings on the East Lansing campus on Feb. 13. That night, law enforcement responded quickly and issued emergency alerts to the campus community as the tragic events unfolded. The emergency, and initially limited information surrounding it, sent the community into panic and into hiding.

Despite reports of shootings at several locations on Monday, Feb. 13, there were only two confirmed locations where the shooter opened fire.

Since the mass shooting, investigators have been working to clarify the shooter’s whereabouts before, during and after the shooting. After a three-hour manhunt, the 43-year-old gunman was found by law enforcement in Lansing, where he shot and killed himself in front of officers...

 

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A few weeks before Michigan State University's mass shooting, the accused gunman said he was beaten up by a group of students in downtown East Lansing, a tipster told university police a day after the campus tragedy.

This detail, revealed in a 91-page preliminary MSU police case report released to The Detroit News through a public records request, offers context to what possibly occurred leading up to the Feb. 13 shooting. The revelation comes a month after MSU police said in an April 27 update that they had found "no conclusive motive" behind 43-year-old Anthony McRae's actions to open fire at three locations at the university, killing three and wounding five others, before taking his own life.

Included in the report is an interview by MSU Sgt. David Isabell on Feb. 14 with an unidentified man who came to the police station and said he knew McRae, whom he referred to as "Tony." The man said he met McRae in 2018 at a community gathering of residents working to improve greater Lansing communities. McRae lived in Lansing...

 

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According to the investigation report, McRae searched and watched MSU’s campus tours, killer documentaries, school shooting videos, arsons and hypnosis two days prior to the shooting.

Other videos documented in the investigation were related to “killer” videos. Other search terms included “people that shot up colleges” and “mass killings in college.”

Investigators said McRae’s account history on YouTube revealed searches for “the bomber” and “the nail bomber.”

Campus police also said McRae legally purchased the ammunition used in the killings.

According to a witness statement, a person whose name was redacted knew McRae and referred to him as “Tony.” The witness statement said they met McRae in 2018 on the MSU campus for a gathering.

The witness statement was given on February 14, and said they saw McRae about three weeks prior. They said McRae seemed agitated.

According to the statement, McRae told the person that students beat him up. In the witness statement, it was noted that they were unsure if the students were from MSU, but they believed the altercation may have been the motive behind the mass shooting.

The person interviewed also mentioned that they and McRae talked about mass shootings in the past, and believed McRae had an infatuation with school shootings and shooters.

MSU reports gunman watched campus tours, searched school shootings prior to mass shooting

Witness statement says shooter claimed beaten by students

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3 more victims, family members file intent to sue MSU after mass shooting

Hanyang Tao and the families of Brian Fraser and Arielle Anderson filed the intent to sue in June, alleging MSU failed to maintain security measures.

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An attorney has filed notice of intent to sue to the Michigan Court of Claims on behalf of three Michigan State University students who were killed or injured in the Feb. 13 campus shooting.

Hanyang Tao and the families of Brian Fraser and Arielle Anderson filed the intent to sue in June, alleging MSU failed to properly maintain an emergency alert notification system and have a properly functioning access control system that could immediately lock all doors on campus if there was an active shooter...

 

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“This report is a critical next step in our ongoing commitment to ensuring MSU is a safe place for all who come to our campus,” said Woodruff. “It provides concrete recommendations for strengthening campus safety and reinforces our efforts are on the right track.”

MSU releases independent after-action report on campus mass shooting response

A full independent review of the university’s response to the mass shooting on campus on Feb. 13 was released Tuesday morning.

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MSU students have mixed feelings about reopening Berkey Hall next semester

Michigan State University's Berkey Hall is slated to reopen next semester after deadly shooting.

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East Lansing — Michigan State University's Berkey Hall is slated to reopen in the spring after renovations in the wake of the deadly Feb. 13 shooting on campus, but students are split on reopening of one of the buildings in which the assaults took place.

Some students choosing classes for the spring semester are weighing whether they'll register for courses in Berkey Hall, where a gunman opened fire first in a classroom on the first floor then struck the student union. The shooting claimed the lives of three students and injured five others.

Junior Marisol Lupercio, 21, thought it was too soon to reopen the building after such a devastating shooting. She had a class in Berkey Hall last fall but doesn't anticipate having to go back there in the future.

"I feel like it will cause a lot of people to not want to go to class and it could cause people to be anxious," said Lupercio of Detroit...

 

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MSU trustees face student backlash over Berkey Hall reopening

Berkey Hall, where two students were killed in Feb. 13 shooting, is set to reopen when new semester starts in January but some say it's too soon.

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Michigan State University's decision to reopen Berkey Hall less than a year after a deadly mass shooting is drawing backlash from some students who say it's too soon and want to see more accommodations for those who feel unsafe or uncomfortable returning to class there.

Berkey Hall is expected to reopen next semester, which starts Jan. 8. But at least seven students spoke out at Friday morning's MSU Board of Trustees meeting held on Zoom, some of whom said it's too soon to reopen Berkey.

"It is too much and it is too soon. Again, people were murdered there. Murdered just 10 months ago," said Charlotte Plotzke, an MSU student and member of March for Our Lives at MSU, a group committed to ending gun violence. "There are ways to allocate and to accommodate your students. Your students are begging you to do this. So please, please do not force kids to go to class in Berkey Hall."...

 

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'A bit inappropriate': MSU resumes classes in Berkey Hall, where deadly shooting unfolded

For some students, Monday was too soon to resume classes in Berkey Hall, where two students were killed and others injured less than a year ago.

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East Lansing — Students filtered in and out of Michigan State University's Berkey Hall on Monday, the first day of the spring semester and the first day the building hosted academic classes since a deadly shooting unfolded there last February.

An outburst of welcomes awaited them through the main entrance: tables piled high with boxes of free muffins and warm drinks, staff waiting to greet them and direct them to classrooms, clip art cut-outs of animals sharing greetings in word bubbles, therapy dogs roaming the halls.

But for some students in the building Monday, it was too soon to resume classes in the place where two students were killed and others injured less than a year ago in the Feb. 13 rampage...

 

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Remembering those slain one year after Michigan State University shooting

A year after Michigan State University shooting, the families of Arielle Anderson, Brian Fraser and Alex Verner spoke about it for the first time.

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ne year ago, Arielle Anderson, Brian Fraser and Alex Verner were happy, ambitious students at Michigan State University.

Everything changed shortly after 8 p.m. Feb. 13, 2023, when a man brought a gun to campus and started shooting in a Berkey Hall classroom and then moved to the MSU Union before taking his own life. Anderson, Fraser and Verner died; five others were severely wounded.

That night forever altered countless lives.

A year later, families and friends of Anderson, Fraser and Verner spoke about the tragedy at length for the first time, and shared with The Detroit News some of their most intimate moments after their loved ones' lives were cut short...

 

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Five students injured in MSU shooting: Where are they now?

Two spent months in rehab facilities. Another returned to Lansing in August 2023 for another surgery. One has advocated for gun control measures.

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Five students were critically injured in the Feb. 13, 2023, shooting at Michigan State University. At least one was paralyzed. Two spent months in rehabilitation facilities. One spoke at a Capitol rally in Lansing. The name of one injured student was never publicly revealed. Here is what we know now...

 

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