Students recall harrowing moments during Michigan State University rampage: 'It's my friend's blood.'
, killing three students and critically wounding five others. The shooter, identified by authorities on Tuesday as 43-year-old Anthony McRae, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Zimbo said the woman left to find a friend's car while he returned to his SUV and threw a blanket over himself to hide for three hours. Claire Papoulias, a sophomore, described on NBC's"Today" how she and other students scrambled to escape a history class through a window after the gunman entered from a back door and began firing.
"I was ducking and covering, and the same with the rest of the students. He let off four more rounds and when it went silent for about 30 seconds to a minute, two of my classmates started breaking open a window, and that took about 30 seconds to happen. There was glass everywhere," Molotky said. "We have absolutely no idea what the motive was," said Chris Rozman, deputy chief of campus police, adding that McRae, of Lansing, was not a student or Michigan State employee.
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