Police seek motive of gunman who killed 3 at Michigan State

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Police say the 43-year-old gunman who killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University had no apparent connection to the campus.

Investigators are searching for a motive for shootings that terrified the community for hours. Anthony McRae fired inside an academic building and the student union just before 8:30 p.m. Monday. An hourslong lockdown at the campus in East Lansing ended when he killed himself miles away while being confronted by police.

The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.