Michigan State University shooting: Suspect dead after three killed and five wounded in MSU attack

“There are three confirmed fatalities,” in the shooting at Michigan State University said police. “This is in addition to the five victims who have been transported to the hospital.”

Ted Zimbo said he was walking to his residence hall when he encountered a woman with a “ton of blood on her.”

“She told me, ‘Someone came in our classroom and started shooting,”’ Zimbo told the Associated Press. “Her hands were completely covered in blood. It was on her pants and her shoes. She said, ‘It’s my friend’s blood.”’

Zimbo said the woman left to find a friend’s car while he returned to his SUV in a parking deck and threw a blanket over himself to hide for three hours.

The shooting at Michigan State is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the US.

Dozens of people have died in mass shootings so far in 2023, most notably in California where 11 people were killed as they welcomed the Lunar New Year at a dance hall popular with older Asian Americans.

In 2022, there were more than 600 mass shootings in the US in which at least four people were killed or injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

“This is a uniquely American problem,” Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer lamented.

All five victims at Sparrow Hospital are in critical condition, said the MSU police in an update on Twitter. “The suspect is a 43-year-old male and is not affiliated in any way with MSU.”

The suspected gunman behind Monday night’s mass shooting at Michigan State University has been described by police as a 43-year-old man with no known affiliation to the school.

Police announced that the suspect had died of a self-inflicted gunshot some four hours after the attack began, lifting a campus-wide lockdown.

The suspect believed to have shot eight people at Michigan State University has been found dead, police said in a midnight briefing.
He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after “contact” with police off campus, said the authorities.

“The suspect in the incident was located outside the MSU campus,” said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department. “And that suspect has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

The authorities did not disclose the name of the suspect, and said that it is too early to know the motive of the shooter.

While the shooting incident was still active police released images of the suspect and described him as a “Black male, shorter in stature” wearing red shoes, a jeans jacket and a baseball cap.

Campus police said they were investigating if he had some type of affiliation with the university.

“There’s a lot that we don’t know at this point,” Mr Rozman said. The suspect “was contacted by law enforcement off campus” at some point, he said, adding, “that scene is being investigated as a crime scene.”

The suspect “was contacted by law enforcement off campus” at some point, said the campus police, adding, “that scene is being investigated as a crime scene.”

The gunman was confirmed dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound roughly four hours after the violence began, said Chris Rozman, deputy chief of the campus police department.

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

Police confirmed three fatalities in the shooting at the Michigan State University campus, adding that this is in addition to the five victims who were injured and transported to the hospital.

“Out of respect to the families, we continue with our active investigation, we cannot confirm personal information of any of the victims at this time.”

Campus police said it was too early to know motive of the shooter in the Michigan State University shooting, adding that they are investigating if the man had some type of affiliation with the university. His name was not immediately released.

“There’s a lot that we don’t know at this point,” Chris Rozman said.

Two people were killed at Berkey and another was killed at the MSU Union, he said.