EAST LANSING, Mich. — A group of Michigan State University students on Wednesday staged a mid-day walkout in an effort not to let the victims of gun violence, both close and far from their homes, be forgotten.
More than 35 individuals gathered outside Berkey Hall during their daily work and class schedules to march to the Sparty Statue at the heart of campus nearly two months after a Lansing man began his shooting rampage that killed three students and critically injured five others.
The crowd was mostly students who chanted the names of Arielle Anderson, 19, and Alexandria Verner, 20, who were fatally shot at Berkey Hall, in addition to that of Brian Fraser, 20, who was shot in the student Union. They also chanted the names of other mass shooting victims, including students at Oxford High School and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
