Student from China paralyzed in MSU shooting

One of the five students who were critically wounded during the deadly mass shooting at Michigan State University is a 20year-old man from China who has been left paralyzed from the chest down.

John Hao, 20, was shot in the back during the Feb. 13 rampage by Anthony McRae, 43, that killed Arielle Anderson, 19, Alexandria Verner, 20, and Brian Fraser, 20, according to a GoFundMe page.

“The bullet severed John’s spinal cord (t7-t8) and critically injured his lungs, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down,” Hao’s roommate and fellow international student Argent Qian wrote on the fundraising site. “As he remains stabilized in the ICU with a breathing tube inserted in his lung, his family is facing significant financial burdens,” Qian explained on the page he set up, which had received over $350,000 from around 9,100 donations as of Monday night.

“Due to Covid, they are already in a large amount of debt, and John’s critical injuries are adding to the pressure on the family, leaving their parents not only to pay the debt in the future but also need to take care of John without having any income, since they are in the US without speaking any English,” he added in the posting.

Qian said Hao’s “mentally crushed” parents have traveled to Michigan to be at his side.

Four survivors are listed in critical condition and one in stable condition at Sparrow Hospital, spokesman Corey Alexander told the Detroit Free Press.

Also wounded was Guadalupe Huapilla-Perez, a third-year business student from a migrant family in Florida.