The victims killed and injured during the shooting were all students at Michigan State University and five remain in critical condition
1:41Police in the US have named the gunman who fatally shot three students at Michigan State University as Anthony McRae.
The 43-year-old, who killed himself hours after Monday's shooting, was not a student at the university and had no known affiliation, police added.and five in critical condition after officials said shots were fired in two locations - an academic building and the student union. Chris Rozman, deputy chief of campus police, said officials have"absolutely no idea" what the motive was, adding that McRae was not a student or Michigan State employee.Mr Rozman added that police confronted McRae before he killed himself.The victims killed and injured were all students and five remained in critical condition, Dr. Denny Martin, the interim president and chief medical officer of E.W. Sparrow Hospital added.
Footage filmed from a window showed panic among students as they ran away from the university buildings when the gunman was on the loose. Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Michigan State graduate, said at a briefing that US President Joe Biden pledged his support during a phone call.Michigan shooting: People try to flee from the sceneThe shooting is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the US.11 people were killedIn 2022, there were more than 600 mass shootings in the US in which at least four people were killed or wounded, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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