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Kim Kozlowski

Note written by Michigan State shooter asked 'why,' pointed to other targets

DETROIT — A Lansing man who shot and killed three Michigan State University students on campus last month and badly wounded five others portrayed himself as a "rejected outcast" who didn't want to be an African American in a note police found on him after he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"Every Where I go people treat me different," wrote Anthony McRae, 43, in a note that police found on him Feb. 13 after he took his own life about 4 miles from campus. "I don't want to be an American african(.) I m a person(.) Why do people hate me? They never accepted me."

"I'm tired of being rejected outcast loner people hate me(.) They made me who I'm am today a killer."

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