DETROIT — At least six hours passed from the start of the mass shooting before Michigan State University informed the families of three students of their deaths; much of that time passed as they waited and watched at the MSU Pavilion as other parents picked up their children, according to a parent and minister who were there that night.
MSU had established the pavilion as a safe space hours after the first gunshots were heard on campus around 8:15 p.m. on Feb. 13, and the families of the three students killed were the last ones remaining there, making it obvious who was not going home with their children, the parent and minister said. The parents learned about their children's deaths around 3 a.m. on Feb. 14, the parent and minister said.
That parent, whose child was killed, called the delay in notification and what happened that night "pathetic."
