“There was a boy in my class, and he was waiting outside the window, and he was catching people and helping people down,” one MSU sophomore said after being trapped at a shooting scene.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Police identified the 43-year-old man whosaying Tuesday that a tip from the public led to a confrontation with officers miles from campus where the gunman fatally shot himself.
“Our Spartan community is reeling today,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Michigan State graduate, said at the briefing.“We mourn the loss of beautiful souls and pray for those continuing to fight for their lives. ... Another place that is supposed to be about community and togetherness shattered by bullets and bloodshed,” Whitmer said.
“After that, we broke out the window and I climbed out of there, and then I booked it back to my apartment,” he said. He was unsure whether gunfire hit any of the students. Ryan Kunkel, 22, was attending a class in the Engineering Building when he became aware of the shooting from a university email. Kunkel and about 13 other students turned off the lights and acted like there “was a shooter right outside the door,” he said.Ted Zimbo said he was walking to his dorm when he encountered a woman with a “ton of blood on her.”
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