Lansing, MI – Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags within the State Capitol Complex and upon all public buildings and grounds across the state of Michigan to be lowered to half-staff today until further notice to honor and remember the victims of the shooting at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
Michigan residents, businesses, schools, local governments, and other organizations are encouraged to display the flag at half-staff. Flags should remain lowered until further notice.
The three dead students were all from the Detroit area: Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson, (both graduated from the Grosse Pointe School District) and Alexandria Verner (a graduate of Clawson High School).
43-year-old gunman Anthony McRae, who killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University, had no apparent connection to the campus, police said.
Investigators are sorting out why he 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.
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