MSU professor recollects capturing: ‘The photographs are very vivid and clear in my head’

A Michigan State College professor recalled the chilling and grotesque particulars of the capturing on the college that took the lives of three college students and loved a number of others earlier this week, saying “the photographs are very vivid and clear in my head.”

Marco Díaz-Muñoz, whose classroom was the primary focused by the gunman, was educating a category on the Lansing, Michigan, campus when the masked suspect entered and opened hearth, capturing at the least 15 rounds, Díaz-Muñoz stated in an interview with CNN.

“I might see this determine, and it was so horrible as a result of while you see somebody who’s completely masked, you don’t see their face, you don’t see their arms — it was like seeing a robotic,” Díaz-Muñoz stated. “I don’t understand how lengthy he stood there.”

The suspected shooter, 43-year-old Anthony McRae, additionally fired pictures on the MSU scholar union, earlier than fleeing the scene. McRae was later discovered lifeless after being confronted by police from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Whereas Díaz-Muñoz held a door closed, others tried to interrupt home windows to try to escape the classroom. Others refused to depart, based on the professor, as an alternative helping their classmates that had been shot.

“They had been attempting to cowl the injuries [of the injured] with their arms so that they didn’t bleed to loss of life,” he recalled. “They had been heroic as a result of they may have escaped via the home windows. They stayed, serving to their classmates.”

“There was a horrendous scene. I’ve by no means seen a lot blood,” Díaz-Muñoz added.

Two of the scholars in his classroom, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner, died. A 3rd scholar, Brian Fraser, was killed within the scholar union.

“These two children that died had been simply good children, critical college students, each of them,” Díaz-Muñoz stated.

Different college students — together with two who survived related incidents at their respective excessive colleges — have additionally weighed in, saying the system “failed them.”

Regardless of the trauma, he stated he does need to proceed educating.

Whereas he might harbor what some have termed “survivor’s guilt” after the capturing, he defined that he desires to make use of the tragedy as a solution to try to have an effect on change at a broader stage, hoping to advocate for gun management. 

“I believe if these senators or lawmakers noticed what I noticed, not simply hear statistics, they’d be shamed into motion,” he stated.