Some yet-to-be-ascertained number of people were on Monday injured in a shooting on a US university campus, local police said, with the gunman still at large.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Campus police at Michigan State University said shots were fired Monday evening and students and staff were ordered to shelter in place.
The police later said the suspect, identified as ‘a short male with a mask, possibly Black,’ appeared to be alone and moving on foot.
‘There are multiple reported injuries,’ MSU campus police said in a statement on Twitter, adding that victims were being taken to nearby hospitals.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was briefed on the shooting and said police were working to secure the area.
‘Let’s wrap our arms around the Spartan community tonight,’ she wrote on Twitter, referring to the university’s athletic logo.
School and university shootings are alarmingly common as part of a broader wave of gun violence in the United States, where the proliferation of firearms has soared in recent years.
In the third press conference on the matter that took place early Tuesday morning, Interim MSU President Teresa K. Woodruff spoke for the first time, saying the campus will now grieve.
“We cannot allow this to continue to happen,” Woodruff said.
Woodruff said starting Tuesday at 9 a.m. they will be offering resources at the Hannah Center.
In addition, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor spoke in the third press conference, saying he has been in constant contact with East Lansing Mayor Ron Bacon, who is at the police station.
Africa Today News, New York reports that a fourth press conference is scheduled for sometime on Tuesday afternoon.