Gunman found dead after 3 murders at Michigan State University

At least three people were killed and five others injured after a gunman opened fire Monday night on the main campus of Michigan State University.

The suspect was found dead hours later, apparently from a gunshot wound, according to police.

Few official details about the gun violence were immediately made available, but Chris Roseman, the university’s interim deputy chief of police, said shots were fired in two locations — at an academic building called Berkeley Hall and the Michigan State University Union Building.

Police responded to the shooting, which began shortly after 8 p.m. (1 a.m. GMT), with victims at both locations, Roseman told reporters in a televised briefing about three hours later.

Rosman said investigators have no information about a motive. He also said the university was not aware of any threats made to the campus before Monday’s bloodshed.

He said three victims died and five were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries. Two of the fatalities were at Berkeley Hall and the other at the MSU Association.

The suspect was “contacted by off-campus law enforcement” at one point, Roseman said, adding that “this scene is under investigation as a crime scene.”

Roseman said the gunman was confirmed dead, apparently by gunshot wound four hours after the violence began.

“There is no longer a threat to the campus. We believe there was only one suspect in this incident,” he said.

Authorities asked students, faculty, and residents of nearby off-campus neighborhoods in East Lansing, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit, to “shelter-in-place” during the chase.

‘Go! Go! Go’

About three hours after the shooting broke out, MSU police released two still photos of the suspect, captured on a surveillance camera, that showed him walking up a building, then up a short flight of stairs, wearing a jacket, jeans, a baseball cap, and a black mask over the lower part of his face.

Michigan State University police said Monday night that all classes and school activities will be canceled for 48 hours at the university’s main East Lansing campus, a sprawling public academic hub home to about 50,000 students, most of them undergraduates.

The violence came nearly 14 months after the deadly mass shooting on November 30, 2021 at Oxford High School in Oakland County, Michigan, about 80 miles east of East Lansing, in which a 15-year-old student opened fire with a half-gun. Automatic pistol.

Four classmates were killed and six students and a teacher were wounded in that attack, the deadliest American school shooting of that year.

Authorities said the teen suspect in the 2021 shooting, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges, used a gun his parents had bought him as a Christmas gift despite signs he was emotionally disturbed. Both parents were charged with manslaughter in the case.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said on Twitter that she was briefed about the shooting in East Lansing.

Alexis Dinkins, a sophomore at MSU who was inside Akers Hall, a dormitory on campus, told the Detroit News that she heard people slamming doors and shouting, “Go, go, go” as the incident occurred.

As she and the others escape from the dorm, they encounter the police, who tell them to go to a nearby bus stop.

“We don’t feel safe anywhere,” Dinkins was quoted by the Detroit News as standing with a group of students on the campus sidewalk after Akers left, describing the situation as “terrifying.”