Police Reveal Possible Motivations Behind Michigan State University Shooting

As Michigan State University Continues to grieve the death of three students by a gunman, police have revealed the contents of the suspected shooter’s suicide note.

The Daily Beast reported that the 43-year old suspect had a two page note in his wallet at the time he shot himself. reported. This note claimed that MSU had rejected him at one time for a job opportunity, but this has not been confirmed.

Rene Gonzalez, Michigan State Police Lt. Rene Gonzalez stated that there is a rejection angle to the job. “being investigated,” Other possible motives may have been offered by the shooter. The shooter could also have suffered from mental illness.

The suspect’s note also mentioned a former job and suggested he was angry with previous employers and employees.

“It appears that he had some issues with the employees there where he was asked to leave,” Gonzalez said in reference to the suspect’s former job that was mentioned in the note. “So it looks like possibly a motive for that was he felt slighted, and that’s kind of what the note indicated.”

The note went into provably false territory as the suspect claimed that he was among 20 people who were ready to commit an attack. The suspect’s father reportedly told detectives that his son had no friends and stayed in his room all day.

“He ate, went to the bathroom in there,” Gonzalez stated, according to the Beast. “His father didn’t believe he had any friends let alone 20 of them that would help him … so we kind of determined that he was the lone shooter in this.”

“We believe there were no other suspects involved and [the suspect] was the lone shooter,” Gonzalez added, according The Washington Post.

The outlet also reported that MSU’s interim president, Teresa Woodruff, announced that classes were canceled through Sunday, and that Berkey Hall, where two of the students were killed, would be closed for the rest of the semester. The Post reported that school officials are still considering whether to reopen student union, which was where the third student was murdered.

The suspect shooter had been convicted of possessing an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle in 2019. He was sentenced in 2019, and spent 18 months in prison. reported. He was released from surveillance in May 2021.

Police had also been called out to the suspect’s residence before because he would fire his gun out the back door, possibly for target practice, the News reported.

The Daily Wire previously published photos of the suspect, who is a black male, that were released by police on Monday night. reportedChris Rozman, interim head of the MSU Police and Public Safety Department, stated that a report of a man matching the description was received in the Lansing area shortly afterwards. The man allegedly shot himself when confronted by police. He later died of his injuries.

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