The family of Guadalupe Huapilla-Perez, who was hospitalized for an injury she suffered in Monday's mass shooting, is asking for donations to cover medical costs and other expenses.
“While we process (our feelings), we don't want to push ourselves into isolation,” Gayle said. “We want to seek opportunities to come together so that we can help each other as we go through this … Most of what anyone who needs help is feeling right now, others are feeling the same, and that's why it's important that we come together and try to unpack some of those feelings and try to help each other.”
Students arrived on campus on Feb. 14, 2023, bouquets in hand - but the flowers weren’t for their valentines. This Valentine’s Day there was no sense of normalcy. The streets on campus were quiet and the majority of the cars were media outlets or police vehicles. The flowers? For Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner and Arielle Anderson, the three students who were killed, and the five unnamed students who were seriously injured, in the mass shooting at Michigan State University the night before.
“I’m just leaving because I just don't feel safe right now,” Madison Krull said. “Especially with the Union right there.”
Following the mass shooting on Michigan State University’s campus, MSU community leadership sent out statements showing their support for students.
Michigan State University and the East Lansing community has sprung into action with making sure students are supported and have outlets to cope after the mass shooting Monday night.
Alexandria Verner, from Clawson, was a junior studying biology. Verner played volleyball, basketball and softball.Brian Fraser, from Grosse Pointe, was a sophomore studying business. Fraser was the Chapter President of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at MSU. Arielle Anderson, a junior at MSU, was from Grosse Pointe.
Jack Harrison's first instinct was to get into a car and get as far from campus as possible.
Police have confirmed the identity of two of the victims of the Monday night mass shooting on Michigan State University's campus. The identity of the third victim is currently being withheld per the family's wishes.
"Our spartan hearts are broken," Woodruff said. "We're grieving, as a community, we're grieving together. We struggle to comprehend. We lost families, friends, classmates and our hearts go out to the victims of this senseless tragedy."
The deceased suspect in the Monday mass shooting on Michigan State University's campus has been identified by police as 43-year-old Anthony McRae. Classes will be canceled until Monday morning and a variety of resources are available to community members.
For the next 48 hours, all campus activities including classes and sporting events are canceled. Crisis counselors will be at the Hannah Community Center beginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
The Michigan State University shooting suspect that died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Lansing is confirmed to be a 43-year-old man with no affiliation to the university.
Du escaped Michigan State University's mass shooting on Feb. 13. The shooting left three dead and at least five injured.
UPDATE: The suspect in a mass shooting on Michigan State University's campus that has left three dead and multiple injured is dead, MSUPD interim deputy chief Chris Rozman confirmed at 12:38 p.m. at a press briefing.
MSU students describe their experience of being on campus during a shooting at multiple locations.
MSUPD interim deputy chief Chris Rozman has confirmed that the shooter has died of a self-inflicted wound. The shelter-in-place order has been lifted and there is no longer a threat on campus.
“I feel like if my school would have encouraged us to attend these sorts of events, it would have given me more knowledge of what I wanted to do when I was older,” event chair and SWE member Paulina Sandoval said. “It wouldn’t have left me scrambling. I was a senior in high school trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, with my college career.”
A sister survivors advocacy group said the unredacted releases of the Quinn Emanuel and Honigman reports give them hope for the new Board of Trustees. While it is a step towards transparency, the university still has a lot to do in terms of Title IX, advocates said.
Trying to find community in a university setting poses many challenges, but adapting to a predominantly white space as a Black student can bring even more.