3 People Died and 5 are injured After a Monday Night Shooting at Michigan State University, all the Victims were MSU Students!

?RISKAlert #1685?????????????????February 14, 2023??????????????????East Lansing, Michigan

Michigan State University (MSU) Shooting Update: Three people have died?and five are injured after a shooting Monday night at Michigan State University, police said.?All the victims were MSU students, according to officials, and the wounded students remain in critical condition!?The Shooter was not affiliated with the University and died from a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound.

The Shooting started at 8:15 on Monday night, according to student Dominik?Molotky?said.?He was in his Cuban history class when the shooting started.??He continued, "At about 8:15 we heard a gunshot right outside of our — right outside of our classroom and?I?was sitting next to the nearest door and thank god that my fight or flight response kicked in because right when that first gunshot went off?I?looked for the — to the far corner of the class?kinda?by where my professor was originally standing,"?Molotky?said.?

"Right after that first gunshot about two seconds later, he came in our class and let off three to four more rounds, I was ducking and covering,"?Molotky?said.?"When it went silent for about 30 seconds to a minute, two of my classmates started breaking open the window and that took about — that took about 30 seconds to happen. There was glass everywhere."??"I'm not too sure, but I think one of the students in my class got hit with a shot,"?Molotky said. Dominik said he's praying there's no more dead.??The MSU students smashed a classroom window open and helped others climb out after the shooting

Michigan State University student Claire Papoulias said she was inside the classroom that the suspect shot into Monday night, adding that a couple of students who were brave enough to smash open a window and assisted students to climb out, helped save lives.?Papoulias, 19, who is a sophomore studying psychology, was taking a history class on Cuba inside Berkey Hall when the shooter opened fire in her classroom, Papoulias said.?

“The teacher was presenting a lesson and all of sudden I heard gunshots directly behind me. That’s when the shooter opened the back classroom door and started firing at my classmates in the back, wounding them. I smelled and saw the gunpowder,” ?Papoulias said.?“Everyone then dropped to the floor immediately and someone started yelling ‘Shooter, everybody get down!'” she said.?Papoulias said she remembers thinking she was going to die but still tried her best to comfort her classmates. “I thought I was going to die. We didn’t know where he went. Everyone was on the ground huddling, and I just looked at my classmates and told them it was going to be okay," she said.

According to Papoulias, the shooter shot three to four times in her classroom before exiting the room and leaving the door wide open. “Someone got up and ran to the door to close it after he left. Then we started barricading ourselves in the classroom while other students tried to smash the window open so we could escape," she said. While some students tried to smash the window open, other students tried to aide to the wounded, Papoulias said.

“One student took his shirt off and tried to stop the bleeding.?I heard another student yell, ‘Oh my God, my arm,'" she said.?Once students were able to smash the window open, they began to jump out the first-floor classroom and run to safety, according to Papoulias. “There was a boy on the other side of the window catching people who were jumping out the window. He stood there and risked his life to catch people,” Papoulias said.?

“If they didn’t bust open the window and barricade the door with the table then the shooter would’ve done a lot more damage and taken more lives. My classmates helped everyone and were all in it together," she said.?Papoulias said she ran straight to her dorm where she stood until she was told it was safe to come out.?

An?alert citizen recognized the Michigan State University shooting suspect and helped police locate where he was shortly after police released his photo,?officials said Tuesday in a news conference.?Chris Rozman, MSU Police and Public Safety?interim deputy chief, said that police determined that they had a picture of the suspect from surveillance video and disseminated that quickly to the public.

"It was shortly after we released it that he was recognized by an alert citizen,"?Rozman said.?"The time frame?was pretty quick after we released it."?"We commend the community and the citizen that called that in. And that was exactly what we were trying to achieve by releasing that picture, was to generate immediate tips for this person that was mobile that we had no idea where he was at that point,"?Rozman said.?

Police named 43-year-old Anthony McRae, who had no known affiliation to the university and was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, as the suspect. There is no known motive at this time, police said.

Michigan State University Interim President Teresa Woodruff said classes will be canceled until Monday morning. The school will be in modified operations for the next two days, she said at a news conference, "then we'll move into a period where classes will be canceled until Monday morning, but campus operations will resume."

"We will provide the resources the students need for the time period they need," she added, thanking the federal government for its support.

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