3 students killed in mass shooting at Michigan State University
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Three students were killed and five others were critically wounded after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University. Police say the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and doesn’t appear to be affiliated with the university. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to discuss the gunman’s motive and what investigators will be looking for.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This was already likely a sad and difficult day for survivors. The mass |
| 0:04.3 | shooting at Marjorie Stoeman Douglas High School, 17 young people murdered five years ago |
| 0:08.7 | today in Parkland, Florida. Today, Parkland is back in the news, but not as an example |
| 0:14.1 | of how far we've come in making such massacres a thing of the past. Instead, it's a reminder |
| 0:19.2 | that the sister and brotherhood of mass shooting victims, survivors, and bereaved is always growing. |
| 0:24.4 | Today, the families and loved ones with three Michigan State University students joined |
| 0:28.4 | that number after gunmen opened fire there last night, shooting eight students, killing three of them. |
| 0:33.4 | It was neither the first nor the 61st such killing this year. According to the gun violence |
| 0:38.6 | archive, it was the 67th. 67 shootings with four more people shot or killed. In fact, number 68 |
| 0:46.0 | happened today with four wounded outside of high school in Pittsburgh. Before we talk about the |
| 0:50.8 | larger story, though, here's what we know about those who were killed in Michigan. Alexandria |
| 0:55.3 | Werner was in her junior year and came from the small town of Claus in Michigan. Her high school |
| 1:00.7 | principal told us she was an excellent student in addition to playing three sports and taking part |
| 1:05.1 | in school leadership groups. He says her kindness was on display every second you were around her. |
| 1:10.8 | She was. He says everything you'd want your daughter or friend to be. Brian Frazier was a |
| 1:16.4 | sophomore from the Detroit suburb of Gross Point. He was a member of Phi Beta, Phi Beta, |
| 1:21.2 | excuse me, Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His sister tells the Detroit Free Press that their family |
| 1:26.4 | isn't ready to speak, but said she doesn't want her brother's name forgotten. We call Brian a light |
| 1:31.2 | in their lives. Ariel Anderson was a junior also from the Detroit area and the same school system |
| 1:38.1 | as Brian Frazier. Her family tells local station WXYZ that she loved children, wanted to be a |
| 1:43.5 | pediatrician. grandmother tells the Free Press that Ariel was kind and loving, caring, compassionate, |
| 1:50.0 | and driven. We're now on the shooting from CNN's Adrian Brottos. |
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