One Michigan State student attended school near Sandy Hook during the horrific 2012 mass shooting.
Multiple Michigan State students, and their parents, relived the horror of a school shooting Monday, having lived through massacres in Newtown, Connecticut, and Oxford Township, Michigan.
Three students were killed and five others were wounded Monday night at MSU.
When senior Jackie Matthews learned there was an active shooter on campus, she texted friends to make sure they were safe. Matthews was just 11 years old and was a student at Reed Intermediate School in Newtown, when it's neighbors school Sandy Hook Elementary School, mass shooting occurred there in 2012. She still remembers being on lockdown at Reed.
Now 21, Matthews said those memories came flooding back as MSU was put on lockdown Monday night.
Others in the MSU community who have experienced multiple mass shootings.
Matthew Riddle's daughter, Emma Grace Riddle, a freshman history major, survived a shooting at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan on Nov. 30, 2021.
"'Lightning doesn't strike twice, right? This has happened to you and it can't happen again, right? To Oxford, to you or anybody else,' and frankly that's not true," Riddle said.
Emma called Riddle, a 45-year-old engineer, from the band room at Oxford High when the gunfire broke out there, and then from her dorm in East Lansing on Monday night.
Riddle said his daughter is, unfortunately, equipped to deal with the reopening of school after a mass shooting.
“It sucks to even say this, but she knows what’s coming over the next few days and how to deal with her trauma and what’s going to happen with vigils and the folks who are experiencing it for the first time,” Riddle said.
Jennifer Mancini told the Detroit Free Press that her daughter, a former Oxford High School student and now a freshman at Michigan State, was across the street from the student union when gunfire erupted Monday night.
“She said, ‘Mom, I hear gunshots … What’s going on?’ “Mancini told the newspaper.
The Oxford shooting drew national attention, not just for the killings, but also for the prosecution of the shooter's parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, who are accused of ignoring warning signs that might have led to the deadly rampage.
They’ve been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, and have pleaded not guilty.
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