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For Jackie Matthews, a Michigan State University senior, it was the second time in a decade when she had the misfortune of being at the scene of a mass shooting.

Matthews was a sixth-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, when that horrific mass shooting happened, she said in a TikTok video posted early Tuesday.

She was on the Michigan State campus on Monday night when a 43-year-old man, who was not a student or affiliated with the school in East Lansing, opened fire at two buildings, killing three students and wounding five others, police said.

The slain students were identified by police as Brian Fraser, a sophomore; Alexandria Verner, a junior; and Arielle Anderson, a junior. The five other victims were in critical condition at a hospital.

The shooter was identified as Anthony McRae of East Lansing. The Detroit News reported Tuesday that he had a history of mental health issues and was charged with multiple gun-related crimes in 2019.

An hourlong manhunt after the shooting led police five miles from campus, where they found and confronted McRae, who police said shot and killed himself.

At Michigan State, Matthews said in her video that she was in a building directly across from where some of the shootings occurred.

"I am 21 years old, and this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through," she said.

Matthews said she had crouched for so long that day in her Sandy Hook classroom on Dec 14, 2012, that her lower back was injured, an injury that recurs when she is under stress. The shooting at Sandy Hook left 26 people dead — 20 children and six adults.

"We can no longer provide just love and prayers. It needs to be legislation; it needs to be action. It's not OK," she said. "We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent. I'll forever be Sandy Hook Strong. I'll forever be Spartan Strong."

Noah Luck, a sophomore engineering major at Michigan State University, said he was leaving lacrosse practice when reports of a shooting emerged. He began getting messages to "get inside," before he drove to his off-campus apartment, where he and his roommates barricaded themselves, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Luck, from Hartland, Michigan, described the campus scene Tuesday morning as a "ghost town".

"A lot of my friends went home. My parents definitely want me home," he told the Free Press. "Right now, I just wanted to check it out and make sure that my fellow Spartans are OK."

On Tuesday, media reports said few students were seen walking through the residential areas and classroom buildings near the Union, one of the two buildings where the shooting occurred, with Berkey Hall being the other.

The gunman had lived with his father in Lansing, Michigan, since his mother died two years ago.

McRae's father told CNN that his son had struggled to keep a job, was unemployed, but had worked for several years at a warehouse loading refrigerators onto trucks. However, he had become bitter, isolated and "evil angry" after his mother died from a stroke.

"Ever since my wife died, my son began to change," said Michael McRae, 67. "He was getting more and more bitter. Angry and bitter. So angry. Evil angry. He began to really let himself go. His teeth were falling out. He stopped cutting his hair. He looked like a wolf man."

McRae was found with a two-page note in his pocket detailing a plan for more shootings at two public schools in the township of Ewing, New Jersey, where authorities said McRae had lived years ago and had not visited for several years.

The shooter wrote that there were "20 of him" who would carry out the attack. The Ewing Police Department later deemed the threat not credible. But police said they will remain on site until Wednesday.

Another part of McRae's notes said he was going to "finish off Lansing".

In 2019, McRae was charged with a felony for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for possession of a loaded firearm, Michigan Department of Corrections records show. He was given a year and a half probation.

President Joe Biden said in a statement Tuesday: "Jill and I are praying for the three students killed and the five students fighting for their lives.''

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered flags to fly at half-staff for the victims. She said in a statement that "the whole state of Michigan is wrapping its arms around the Spartan community today."