Shots fired at Michigan State University in East Lansing, United States, this Monday (13) left “multiple injuries”, university police said on Twitter, urging students and faculty to “take shelter” as a video local media showed police storming the campus.
Few official details about the shooting have been released at this time, but university police said on Twitter that the shots were fired in two locations – near an academic building known as Berkey Hall and at a sports facility called IM East.
“There are multiple injuries reported,” Michigan State University (MSU) said on its police and public safety Twitter feed.
Police and the City of East Lansing, a college town near the state capital of Lansing and about 90 miles northwest of Detroit, tweeted that a single suspect was at large and believed to be on foot.
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public institution of higher learning whose main campus in East Lansing is home to 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
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