Shooter kills 3, self, wounds 5 in Michigan State shooting
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Police say a man suspected of killing three people and wounding five more at Michigan State University on Monday night has died.
Police say the man apparently shot himself off campus. The announcement came early Tuesday, four hours after shootings were reported, first at Berkey Hall and then nearby at the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study.
Michigan State lifted a shelter-in-place order that had been in place for students since around 8:30 p.m. Monday.
The alert advised students and staff to “Secure-in-Place immediately” and to monitor alert.msu.edu for information.
The shootings began shortly before 8:30 p.m. at Berkey Hall, an academic building, and also occurred nearby at the student union, a popular gathering spot, said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department.
Students were ordered to shelter in place for hours. Rozman urged parents to stay away.
“I can only imagine the emotion that’s involved right now . ... We are doing everything we can to ensure the safety of our campus and all of our students,” he said.
Sparrow Hospital spokesperson John Foren said he had no information on the conditions of five injured people.
By 10:15 p.m., police said Berkey, as well as nearby residence halls, were secured.
WDIV-TV meteorologist Kim Adams, whose daughter attends Michigan State, told viewers that students were worn down by the hourslong saga.
“They’ve been hiding, all the lights off in a dark room,” Adams said. “Their cellphones are starting to lose battery charge. They don’t all have chargers with them and losing contact with the outside world is terrifying on a normal day for college kids, let alone when there’s someone out there that they haven’t caught yet.”
Michigan State has about 50,000 students. All campus activities were canceled for 48 hours, including athletics and classes.
Church sex abuse alleged:
More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 alleged victims have already come forward with their stories, an expert panel looking into historic abuse in the church said Monday.
Senior Portuguese church officials had previously claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred.
Senior clergymen sat in the front row of the auditorium where panel members read out some of the harrowing accounts of alleged abuse included in their final report. There were vivid and shocking descriptions.
The Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, set up by Portuguese bishops just over a year ago, looked into alleged cases from 1950 onward. Portuguese bishops are due to discuss the report at an extraordinary meeting March 3.
The statute of limitations has expired on most of the alleged cases. Only 25 allegations were passed to prosecutors, the panel said.
The head of the Portuguese
Bishops Conference, Bishop Jose Ornelas, asked the victims for forgiveness and apologized for the church having failed to grasp the scale of the problem.
A man driving a U-Haul truck swerved onto sidewalks and plowed into scooter riders in New York City on Monday, killing one person and injuring seven others before police were able to pin the vehicle against a building following a mileslong pursuit through Brooklyn.
A 44-year-old man was pronounced dead hours after he was struck and critically
NYC truck incident:
injured, according to a law enforcement official. The officials could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The driver was arrested and taken to a police station. His son identified him as Weng Sor, 62, a troubled man with a history of harmful behavior and stints behind bars.
The mayhem unfolded over a hour as the truck tore through Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, hitting people at several points along the way before veering on and off a highway
as police gave chase.
Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell described it as a “violent rampage,” but said there was no evidence of “terrorism involvement.”
The truck traveled some three miles before police could stop it.
Architect of Capitol fired:
President Joe Biden has fired embattled Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton, who oversees the historic building that houses Congress and its grounds, as pressure mounted for removal following a scathing inspector general report of personal and management lapses.