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Police say day before shooting suspect was "unreasonable and illogical"

Police offered new details at a press conference Saturday about the shooting that left two people dead on the campus of Central Michigan University.

Officials say 19-year-old James Davis Jr. shot and killed his parents Friday morning in the Campbell Residence Hall before fleeing the scene.

Campus Police Chief Bill Yeagley said CMU police took Davis to an area hospital the night before the shooting after Davis displayed erratic behavior. Davis was picked up by his parents and brought back to the dorms the next morning, where the shooting occurred.

“What we know for sure is that the gun was registered to his father and for sure he came from the parking lot into our residence hall with the gun and the father was upstairs at that time.”

Davis’ father was a police officer in Bellwood, Illinois, near Chicago.

Yeagley said Davis’ parents were in his room when Davis retrieved a weapon from his parent's vehicle.

“Just prior to the actual incident Mr. Davis came into our residence hall with a weapon, went to the fourth floor where we believe he shot and killed his father and mother.”

Hours later, just after Midnight, Yeagley said police responded to a call from a train operator who saw someone standing near tracks that run through campus.

“Within two minutes CMU police officers were on scene and within another minute had the suspect in custody which put an end to the threat of violence in our community.”

Yeagley said when officers picked up Davis he was suffering from hypothermia and quote “Life was not making sense to him at that moment.”