In Tuesday's News Hit: - A consequential land swap deal in Southwest Detroit with the Moroun family - MSU students returned to class one week after a mass shooting stunned the university - A barricaded gunman scene in Grosse Pointe Shores ended with one man's arrest Monday night
stayed to literally try to put their hands to staunch the bleeding for those that were dying. i know you re an alumna of the university and you know it very well. it was clear the night it was happening you knew exactly the locations and could give us such specific descriptions. how is this impacting that community? reporter: erin, spartans are strong, but part of that strength, well, i shouldn t say but because that would erase what i said before. and part of that strength is admitting when you are scared and we ve seen spartans say, hey, i m scared. i m afraid. they are on edge, especially with classes set to resume on monday. one of the traditions here at michigan state university is to take a picture with the sparty statue which is behind me, it s now become a memorial for those three would were killed monday night. but you take a picture with sparty on the first day of class and then you take another
picture with sparty on the last day of class when you re in your cap and gown and you look back and you see what has changed. think about those students who took a picture four years ago, the ones who are supposed to graduate in a few months, they will look back and say, hey, i am now a survivor of a mass shooting. something some of them tell me they thought would never happen. i think about the times me and my friends returned to campus. we come back here for celebrations, i came back when my younger sister graduated from college. we come back for homecoming but coming back for a mass shooting, that s something people say they didn t expect, even though in the same breath they say they won t be surprised if it happens again. tonight campus is quiet. it reminds me of the holiday break. this is the only time where the only noise you hear is that of
It’s been a challenging week for students still on the campus of Michigan State University. Empty classrooms and empty sidewalks are all a reminder of what took place less than 72 hours earlier.
The memorial at the Sparty Statue continues to grow as students, alumni, and members of the community come together to pay their respects to their classmates who lost their lives.