He lauded physicians and staff at the hospital for dealing with the mass casualties.
“We practice this very often but hope we never have to do it,” he said. “It was a sad but very proud night for all of us here.”
Rozman said McRae was located at about 11:35 Monday night in Lansing by officers about 5 miles away in an industrial area. McRae killed himself and a firearm was recovered at the scene, Rozman said. McRae was not a student or employee of the school and no connection to the school was immediately determined.
McRae was on probation for 18 months until May 2021 for possessing a loaded, concealed gun without a permit, according to the state Corrections Department.
Rozman said authorities reviewed security camera footage after the shooting, found frames that included the shooter and released his photo. Officers following up on a tip called in “from an alert citizen” found the killer, he said.
“We want to sincerely thank our community for their help,” campus police said in a Twitter post. “Because of the quick release of the suspect photos through our campus security cameras, a caller’s tip was able to lead officers to the suspect.”
Mancini, who asked that her daughter’s name not be used, said her daughter was across the street from the student union Monday when gunfire erupted. Her daughter saw people running out of the building and called her mother.
“She said, ‘Mom, I hear gunshots … What’s going on?’ ” Mancini said. “She said, ‘Get me out of here.'”
Her daughter’s father went to get her after the lockdown ended. Read more here.
– Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press
3 KILLED AT MICHIGAN STATE:Suspect dead after hourslong search
‘It’s the same cycle over and over again,’ says Parkland survivor
Exactly five years since a gunman fatally shot 17 people and wounded 17 others at his high school in Parkland, Florida, David Hogg awoke to news of another mass shooting, this time at Michigan State University.
“It’s just that it’s really disheartening and frustrating when this stuff continues to happen. It’s the same cycle over and over again,” said Hogg, 22, now a senior at Harvard University studying history and political science.
Hogg noted students at Michigan State who were affected by the shooting included survivors of the mass shootings at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan, in 2021 and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, in 2012.
“It’s awful,” he said. “It’s becoming increasingly common that kids don’t just go through a school shooting but that they go through multiple.”
At the same time, Hogg said he hasn’t lost hope. He’s focused on building consensus around gun violence prevention.
“We need to have a dialogue, not a debate. That’s the bottom line here,” Hogg said. “Debate is getting us nowhere. We need to focus on what we can agree on.”
– Grace Hauck
Interim MSU President Teresa Woodruff said Tuesday that the school has moved to emergency operations for two days to allow students, staff and faculty “to think, grieve and be together” after a “day of shock and heartbreak.”
The school has 50,000 students, almost 20,000 of whom live on campus. A Family Assistance Center was set up for families to pick up their on-campus students. Counselors were available for staff and students.
“We are devastated at the loss of life,” Woodruff said. “Our campus grieves, we will all grieve. We will change over time. We cannot allow this to continue to happen again.”
Bacon reported from Arlington, Va. Contributing: Paul Egan, Andrea Sahouri, Mike Ellis, Emily Lawler, Mark Johnson and Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY NETWORK; The Associated Press