McKinley Jr., Kwame Opam, Anushka Patil, April Rubin, Emily Schmall, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Remy Tumin, John Yoon and Jin Yu Young. Reporting was contributed by Sam Easter, Jacey Fortin, Jenny Gross, Amanda Holpuch, Mike Ives, Jesus Jiménez, Lauren McCarthy, James C. The Sandy Hook shooting, more than 10 years ago, was not far from their minds. On Monday night, his mother asked him if he wanted to fly home, as classes were canceled all week, and the Michigan State campus was emptying out on Tuesday. His generation is all too familiar now with what to do in shootings, he said: “Lock the doors. Spencer Ances, 18, a Michigan State freshman from Southbury, Conn., next door to Newtown, remembered being picked up from school after the Sandy Hook massacre. “I never thought I would have to text my loved ones or my friends again to make sure that they were O.K.” “I was starting to feel that sense of security there, so having it gone again is not a good feeling,” she said. She had just started to feel less overwhelmed by large crowds again, she said, having enjoyed attending Michigan State football games but not yet feeling ready to experience a basketball game indoors.
“I was trying to make myself as small as possible,” she said. “We can no longer just provide love and prayers,” she said in the video. In one TikTok video, a student who was at Sandy Hook Elementary on the day of the shooting said it was “incomprehensible” to have lived through two mass shootings in her 21 years. Students who had lived through other shootings expressed their disbelief and disgust on social media. Woodruff, the school’s interim president, said that classes would be canceled until Monday morning, and that other operations were on a modified schedule. Being keenly aware of the possibility of gun violence has become a trademark of the generation of adults who grew up after the Columbine High School attack of 1999, which left 12 students and one teacher dead and reshaped how Americans viewed mass shootings.Īt Michigan State, students, faculty members and neighbors remained shaken the day after the shooting. Their younger counterparts have become repeat survivors of traumatic violence.Įven those who may not have lived through shootings themselves often know people who have. People a few years older grew up with active shooter drills. But last summer, neighbors near the father’s house in Lansing were alarmed when his son fired a gun in the backyard, a neighbor said.įor a generation of young Americans, mass shootings at schools or colleges once considered sanctuaries for learning have become so painfully routine that some of them have lived through more than one by their early 20s. His son pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and served 18 months probation.
The police, however, had seized several guns from his son, the father said, at some point after he was charged in June 2019 with carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. He had never been diagnosed with a mental health disorder and, to his knowledge, was not on medication, he added. He said his son lived briefly in a homeless shelter in Cincinnati. McRae, his father said, became increasingly unkempt and would rarely leave his bedroom. McRae’s 67-year-old father, Michael, said that his son’s demeanor changed drastically after his mother died in 2020. McRae had ties to Ewing but had not lived there for several years, the Ewing Township Police Department said in a statement. McRae’s pocket led school officials hundreds of miles away in Ewing Township, N.J., to cancel classes on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead and 17 injured, the now-familiar rituals of sorrow, anger and disbelief played out again, a day after the shootings and a three-hour police manhunt on Monday night. “We just went through this 14 months ago. “It’s so surreal,” said Emma Riddle, an 18-year-old freshman at Michigan State who was on campus on Monday, and a senior at Oxford High during that shooting. Now, as young adults, they had made it to college, and it was taking place all over again. Nine years later, the Oxford High School shooting in a nearby township outside of Detroit, left four teenagers dead. They were just children when the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killed 26 students, teachers and staff members in 2012. As gunshots erupted on the vast Michigan State University campus late on Monday, killing three students and injuring five others, many on campus felt a chilling sense of familiarity.
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