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Wednesday 15 February 2023
Police seek motive of gunman who killed 3 at Michigan State

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and The shootings took place police within minutes, Roz-
MIKE HOUSEHOLDER in an area of older, stately man said.
Associated Press buildings on the northern “That was exactly what we
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) edge of the Michigan State were trying to achieve by
— The 43-year-old gunman campus, one of the na- releasing that picture. We
who killed three students tion’s largest at 5,200 acres. had no idea where he was
and wounded five others Just across busy Grand at that point,” the deputy
at Michigan State Univer- River Avenue lies East Lan- chief said.
sity had no apparent con- sing’s downtown, teeming Officers confronted McRae
nection to the campus, with restaurants, bars and about 5 miles (8 kilometers)
police said Tuesday as they shops. from campus in an indus-
searched for a motive for “Our Spartan communi- trial area, where he killed
shootings that terrified the ty is reeling today,” Gov. himself, Rozman said.
community for hours. Gretchen Whitmer, a Mich- In 2019, McRae was ac-
Investigators were sorting igan State graduate, said cused of illegally possess-
out why Anthony McRae at the morning briefing. ing a concealed weapon,
fired inside an academic This combination of images from surveillance video provided Biden pledged his support according to the state Cor-
by Michigan State University Police and Public Safety show a
building and the student suspect whom authorities are looking for in connection with during a phone call, she rections Department, but
union just before 8:30 p.m. multiple shootings at the university late Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, said. pleaded guilty to having a
Monday. An hourslong in East Lansing, Mich. “We mourn the loss of loaded gun in a vehicle, a
lockdown at the campus in Associated Press beautiful souls today and misdemeanor. He complet-
East Lansing ended when pray for those who are ed 18 months of probation.
he killed himself miles away it was determined there said. “There are still crime continuing to fight for their A large police presence
while being confronted by was no credible threat, lo- scenes that are being pro- lives. ... Another place that was in his Lansing neighbor-
police. cal police said later in a cessed, and we still are in is supposed to be about hood overnight. Suzanne
The shooting happened statement shared by the the process of putting to- community and together- Shook said she has lived a
the day before the fifth an- superintendent. gether the pieces to try ness is shattered by bullets block away from McRae
niversary of the Parkland, The dead and injured in the to understand what hap- and bloodshed,” Whitmer for about a year.
Florida, school shooting gunfire at Berkey Hall and pened.” said. “We never spoke to him,”
that killed 17 and is the lat- the MSU Union, a popular The dead were all from the Michigan State has about Shook said. “When he
est in what has become a place to eat and study, Detroit area. Two gradated 50,000 students, including would be walking or rid-
deadly new year in the U.S. were all Michigan State from separate high schools 19,000 who live on cam- ing his bike, he was al-
“We have to do something students. Five remained in in the Grosse Pointe district: pus. As hundreds of offi- ways straightforward and
to stop the gun violence critical condition at Spar- Brian Fraser, president of cers scoured the campus, wouldn’t look at anybody.”
that’s ripping apart our row Hospital, said Dr. Den- Phi Delta Theta fraternity, about 90 miles (145 kilome- Students, meanwhile, re-
communities,” President ny Martin, who fought back and Arielle Anderson. Alex- ters) northwest of Detroit, called the previous night’s
Joe Biden said in a speech tears during a news confer- andria Verner, a graduate students hid where they terror. Dominik Molotky
Tuesday, mentioning Michi- ence Tuesday. of Clawson High School in could Monday night. said he was learning about
gan State. “We have absolutely no another Detrot suburb, also At 11 p.m., police were still Cuban history around 8:15
Meanwhile, a school district idea what the motive was,” died. searching for McRae when p.m. when he and the oth-
in Ewing Township, New Jer- said Chris Rozman, deputy “If you knew her, you loved he turned up on school se- er students heard a gun-
sey, closed for the day af- chief of campus police, her and we will forever re- curity cameras, and his im- shot outside the classroom.
ter investigators said that adding that McRae, 43, of member the lasting impact age was quickly released He told ABC’s “Good Morn-
McRae, who lived in the Lansing, was not a student she has had on all of us,” to news media. An “alert ing America” that a few
area years ago, had a note or Michigan State employ- Clawson Superintendent citizen” saw the picture, seconds later, the gunman
in his pocket indicating a ee. Billy Shellenbarger said in recognized him in the Lan- entered and fired three to
threat to schools there. But “This is still fluid,” Rozman an email to families. sing area and contacted four more rounds.q

Prosecutor ousted by DeSantis filing

appeal to get job back

an appeal in his federal against seekers or providers First Amendment and the
lawsuit against the gover- of abortion or gender tran- Florida Constitution by re-
nor in a renewed bid to get sition treatments, as well as moving the prosecutor.
his job back. policies about not charg- “The idea that the Gov-
Andrew Warren, a twice- ing people with some minor ernor can get away with
elected Democratic state crimes. breaking federal and state
attorney in Hillsborough The notice of appeal law should offend anyone
County, filed a notice of comes a month after a fed- who believes in freedom —
appeal in the case Tues- eral judge in Tallahassee free speech, free elections,
day, seeking to bring it to dismissed Warren’s lawsuit and that no one is above
the U.S. Court of Appeals against DeSantis. the law,” Warren said in a
This combination of Aug. 4, 2022, images shows Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis, left, and Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew for the 11th Circuit in At- In that ruling, U.S. District statement Tuesday.
Warren during separate news conferences in Tampa, Fla. lanta. Judge Robert Hinkle said “We’ve proven that De-
Associated Press DeSantis suspended War- federal law prevents him Santis broke the law, and
ren last year over the pros- from returning Warren to I’ll keep fighting until I’m
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE The elected state prosecu- ecutor’s signing of state- office though a lawsuit that back doing the work that
Associated Press tor suspended by Florida ments that said he would centered on state law, but the people elected me to
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis is filing not pursue criminal charges that DeSantis violated the do.”q