OT, PSA: East Lansing shooter at large
Just a heads-up. Two shootings in East Lansing (near Frandor and Coolidge, by Saginaw). Suspect is at large, everything is pretty much locked down, including all EL schools.
MSU ALERT, Two Shootings nearby campus: Frandor & Coolige Rd. If nearby secure-in-place immediately. Please advise others if you can.
— MSU (@michiganstateu) May 12, 2014
Stay safe. And stop shooting people please.
mob hit?
There are times when Sparty jokes aren't a great idea. Times involving the phrase "secure-in-place" generally fall under that heading.
Hope everyone is safe and they get the situation under control ASAP.
Two points. This is tragic no matter what. Hopefully it's not a random senseless act. Granted, shooting someone is always senseless, but there is some relief to find that it was a drug war or something, and that there was an implied risk agreed to by the person being shot at. I hope that the person responsible is found and prosecuted quickly. Even though there is a strong rivalry, MSU fans are some of the best people I know.
Second, Brandon Dawson has a great alibi. He is definitely not a shooter...
Why people . . .
ALSO, saw your tweet about your son's daycare BiSB. Hope everything is okay on that front.
As a fellow parent, I get nervous every time my kids leave the house. And half the time that they are in the house, as they are too close to the stairs.
It's a sad state, both in reality, and in incorrect perception, that I was happy to learn that my child's preschool class was way in the back of the building, as he'd be safer if some whacko showed up with a gun. First, it's a million times more likely one of our children would die by car accident or childhood disease. Second, the fact that the issue is even on a parent's radar is an indictment on the state of mental health in the United States.
Hope the best for your kids.
In addition to BiSB, I know we have a sizeable contingent of MGoBloggers who reside and/or work in the East Lansing / Lansing area, so everyone stay safe and hopefully they catch the shooter soon and no one else is hurt.
We were at lunch at Los Tres Amigos on Grand River about an hour ago and heard the sirens. Hope no one else gets hurt and they catch the guy.
[ED:BiSB - Yeah, we're not gonna debate gun rights in this here thread]
I'm hearing one fatality confirmed, a Rite Aid employee:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/viewart/20140512/NEWS01/305120020/Po…
Update: police have suspect cornered in a house he has broken into. Hopefully no one is in the residence.
Those places are in Lansing, not East Lansing. Near campus? By maybe a mile or two. But not the same city.
Coolidge is the Lansing/East Lansing border at Saginaw. The Rite Aid is on the Lansing side, but almost all of the housing near that intersection is in East Lansing.
the assailant returned to his duplex on the east side of Coolidge, which is East Lansing (the west side is Lansing). He surrendered without further incident.
Of crazy things going on world-wide. The situations in Nigeria and Afghanistan are beyond description. Then think of North Korea.
It seems that someone gets pissed in our country and then takes it out on innocent people. The perpetrators have used guns, knives and even explosives to kill men, women and children without being discriminatory of any age group.
It is happening in small towns, large cities and now East Lansing, which I thought was a peaceful place where folks did not lock their doors.
Pray for the injured and the families of those killed by this madman.
about a dozen hommicides a year. Most drug related. This will be the 2nd one this year, both within the last week
According to this http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Lansing-Michigan.html
Lansing has a higher crime rate than the national average, which I believe. In some parts of town its Flint Jr.
But proves yet again that one cannot just make assumptions about these kinds of things.
I just hope that the injuries and fatalities are kept to a minimum. Protect the kids most of all.
Detroit, Flint and even Benton Harbor grab more headlines its hard to stand out.
will I make fun of the Spartans in any fashion. I made the mistake of first trying to fun them, then I had the audacity to try to defend my position and that cost me far more ( 70 pts) than the original comment itself. I figured they just wanted me to take my beatdown and go away so I did before I lost 30 more points.
after brief stand off, two dead. Second victim was probably completely innocent and at the wrong place at the wrong time.