Classes at Michigan State University are cancelled until Monday as the East Lansing campus grieves. That’s after three students were murdered and five were seriously wounded in a mass shooting.
Authorities say the suspected gunman took his own life after fleeing the campus. There’s no known connection between the school and the 43-year-old man.
MSU interim President Teresa Woodruff says the school is ready with counseling and other services.
“We struggle to comprehend. We lost families, friends, classmates, and our hearts go out to the victims and families of this senseless the tragedy.”
Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Democrats in the Legislature have promised action on long-stalled gun control measures including universal background checks, safe storage laws and red flag laws.
She says her best friend was one of the five students who were injured during the shooting. Those students remain in critical condition at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital.
Many students were stuck on campus for hours as law enforcement swept and cleared buildings after shots were fired at Berkey Hall and the MSU Union.
Leeslie Herrera [Leslie Eh-reh-rah) is a senior at MSU. She was studying at the union building when she heard gunshots.
“So then I didn't like, necessarily believe that it was gunshots, because why would there be gunshots in the union.” said Herrera.
Herrera says she was able to run out of the building and barricade herself with twelve others inside a bathroom at the library across the street.
