By Mithil Aggarwal and David K. Li -
NBC News
Many students (and their parents) relived the horror of a school shooting, after first surviving the 2021 Oxford high school massacre and again this Monday at Michigan State University in another attack in which three students died and five were injured.
The shooting on the college campus happened about 100 miles from the home of Andrea Ferguson, whose daughter, a student at the center, was unharmed on November 30, two years ago in a shooting that killed four students outside of Detroit, also in Michigan.
Michigan State University students after the shootingBill Pugliano / Getty Images
Police said the killer, identified by police as Anthony McRae and having no known ties to the school, shot and killed himself after the massacre.
Authorities are investigating what led him to attack the campus.
His father told NBC News in an interview that he was "bitter" after his mother's death, an event that made him "mean and mean."
“I never thought in my life that I would have to experience two school shootings,” Ferguson told the local NBC station in Detroit. “It was like reliving Oxford all over again,” he said, “the phone call, the word shooting, shooter, it was surreal.” .
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office — which responded to both shootings — took note of the horrific repetition of violence, saying in a Facebook post: “We know this will be a terrible memory for our Oxford community, especially for those students who graduated from Oxford High School and are now attending MSU.”
[Michigan college shooting perpetrator turned “evil and mean” after his mother died, according to his father]
Jennifer Mancini told the Detroit Free Press that her daughter, an Oxford High School graduate and now a freshman at Michigan State University, was across the street from the student union when the shooting erupted.
The terrified student called her mother.
"She told me: 'Mom, I heard shots, what's going on?'" Mancini revealed to the newspaper.
"I can't believe this is happening again," Mancini said.
“She said that she had post-traumatic stress disorder.
She said that she can't believe this is happening again,” she added.
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On November 30, 2021, an Oxford High School student, Ethan Crumbley fatally shot four classmates on campus, located 45 miles north of downtown Detroit.
Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty to all charges against him in October.
The Oxford massacre drew national attention, not only for the murders, but also for the prosecution of the defendant's parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, for allegedly ignoring warning signs that could have led to the shooting.
They are charged with involuntary manslaughter, and have pleaded not guilty.
Survivor of the Sandy Hook massacre
Another person who emerged unscathed from the Michigan State University shooting is Jackie Matthews, one of the survivors of the Sandy Hook tragedy, as recounted in an emotional video on the TikTok social network.
"I'm 21 years old and this is the second mass shooting I've experienced now," Matthews said, "we can't keep letting this happen. We can't keep being complacent," he said.
On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at an infant school in Newtown, Connecticut.
"The fact that this is the second mass shooting that I have experienced is incomprehensible," lamented the young woman.
“My heart goes out to all the families and friends of the Michigan State [University] shooting.
But we can no longer limit ourselves to offering love and prayers.
You have to legislate, you have to act.
Not well.
We cannot continue to allow this to happen.
We cannot continue to be complacent, ”she claimed.