DETROIT — The father of the man who police say killed three Michigan State University students and wounded five others before taking his own life said he doesn't know his son's motive, but he is praying for change, including stricter gun control laws, so people can't get guns as easily as his son bought two 9 mm pistols.
Michael McRae, 67, told The Detroit News this week that he is praying for something to change in America, even as 43-year-old Anthony McRae was accused of being behind the nation's 67th mass shooting in 2023. He said he doesn't know where his son bought the guns after he told The News last week he thought they were purchased at the Lansing pawn shop Dicker and Deal, where a general manager said there was no record of such a sale in the past year.
"We keep praying to God it stops, to stop this stuff from happening,” said McRae, who was raised by a minister and has gone to a Christian church his whole life. “Change the gun laws. Change the gun laws so they make it where nobody can buy guns no more. … People buy guns like it don’t mean nothing. They get guns, buy guns and go around and do crazy stuff like this. You don’t make a change, you will never get there."
