Hi everybody, it is 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Aimen Mojideen in today for Nicole Wallace.

It feels hopelessly routine. It is a uniquely American disgrace, not just that we are coming

on the air, prepared to talk about a deadly school shooting five years to the day after

the horrors of Parkland. But, cooler, still. We appear to be running out of days on the

calendar that do not coincide with one mass shooting or another. And this time, it happened

at two separate locations at Michigan State University. The shelter in place email went

out 8.31 pm, quote, run, hide, fight. In that order, and hours later, following a manhunt

for the shooter, three students dead, five critically injured, and the shooter found

with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Now, police aren't sure of his motive just yet, but

they are suggesting he had a history of mental health issues and had previously been charged

with gun-related crimes. Stop and think about this for a moment. This was the 67th mass

shooting in the United States this year, and we're only 45 days into it. Listen to the

way one young woman described her experience to the today show. She had to jump out of

a broken window to escape while two over classmates in that room didn't make it.

Someone was yelling that there was a shooter and everybody needed to get down on the ground.

At that moment, I thought that I was going to die. I will never forget the screams of my

classmates, and they were like screaming and pain for help.

The three victims of the shooting have now been identified. They are Brian Frazier, a

sophomore at Michigan State University, 19 year old Ariel Anderson, also a sophomore at

MSU who aspires to become a pediatrician and Alex Werner, remembered as a tremendous student

and athlete who loved volunteering to help senior citizens. Again, one of the most painful

parts about days like this is how agonizingly familiar they have become to all of us. That

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