
Marcus Wolff, 20, said on Tuesday that his usual Monday night volleyball game in a campus gym had been cut short by reports of a gunman on the loose. “I’m keeping myself hidden in the closet.” “I covered the door with my roommate’s bed and I turned off the lights,” he said at the time. Julian Alonso, a Michigan State University freshman, said that he had left his dormitory on Monday evening to buy a snack at a 7-Eleven, and returned a few minutes later to find at least 10 police cars a block away. Tucker, who takes classes in Berkey Hall, one of the buildings where the gunman opened fire. “Everyone was texting their parents constantly,” said Ms. Still, as hundreds of police officers searched for the gunman and rumors flew about his location, she and her friends didn’t feel entirely secure sitting in her living room and watching the news and listening to police scanners.

She also got a call from her mother in Ann Arbor, Mich. No Strangers to Shootings : For some Michigan State students who had lived through other mass shootings, the familiar rituals of sorrow, anger and disbelief were playing out again.Įlena Tucker, 21, was in her apartment, a few hundred feet from campus, when that message came in.Balancing Freedom and Safety : While elementary, middle and high schools have adopted new measures to try to deter gun violence, the same changes have not come to the more open campuses of colleges.Police Audio : A Times review of police radio feeds from the day of the shooting reveals the confusion and chaos that took hold as law enforcement conducted a manhunt for the gunman.
A Michigan State professor recalled the shooting.
