A few weeks before Michigan State University's mass shooting, the accused gunman said he was beaten up by a group of students in downtown East Lansing, a tipster told university police a day after the campus tragedy.
This detail, revealed in a 91-page preliminary MSU police case report released to The Detroit News through a public records request, offers context to what possibly occurred leading up to the Feb. 13 shooting. The revelation comes a month after MSU police said in an April 27 update that they had found "no conclusive motive" behind 43-year-old Anthony McRae's actions to open fire at three locations at the university, killing three and wounding five others, before taking his own life.
Surveillance videos showed Anthony McRae bought ammunition from a Dunham's sporting goods store at the Lansing Mall about three hours before the Feb. 13 shooting at Michigan State University.
