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Emotional MSU Parents Respond to Tragedy
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Emotional MSU Parents Respond to Tragedy

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February 14, 2023 | 00:19:01 | Leisure

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Mojo in the morning. For those just waking up right now, many of you may not even know this. I know that the people that do definitely want the update, a shooting on the campus of Michigan State University last night. And Shannon has the latest on this. And what's the latest, Shannon?

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Well, this morning, three people are confirmed dead dead and five others critically injured we don't know if those are students or faculty by the way at this point the school sending out an alert at 8 31 p.m. telling students to run hide fight with

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a report of shots fired on campus all people start running for their lives and we immediately knew like something's up like we got to get inside like lock the house down turn off all the lights to just barricade ourselves inside. There's another student. The shooter came in our room and shot three to four times. And I'm pretty sure he hit two students in our classroom.

00:03:19 - 00:03:33 | Speaker 3:

The suspected shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was a 43-year-old man, not affiliated in any way with the school. Speaking earlier this morning at a news conference, interim Michigan State President Teresa Woodruff commenting.

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We will take two days where we will move to emergency operation to give ourselves time to think and to grieve and to be together. And this Spartan community, this family, will come back together. There is little else that can be said other than we are a community that is knit together by each other. and we will hold each other up in moments of grief as well as celebration but today we come

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together as a family and we grieve together again three dead five critically injured and i will have more updates for you in the 7 30 30 is two days enough no i don't i don't believe that it would

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be for uh for me if i was a student or even as a parent you know what i mean i agree i'm actually

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shocked that right off the bat said we'll grieve for two days and then back to normal maybe they'll

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prolong a little bit after they you know yeah i listen i at this point right now um it it kind of makes me uh it makes me sad to see like a a text couple of texts that come in and say uh like this one here y'all are overreacting right reacting get back to your regular show um it just shows you that That we are totally desensitized to this one. And I don't know if you guys saw this on Twitter last night, but it really was truth to me when I started going through just trying to get information. But it was the person that wrote out the four scales of where we go when we have a shooting like this. It was like a handwritten thing that was trending a bunch of places. and it showed it was like uh everybody wants the the news i'm paraphrasing because i don't have it in front of me but it was like get the news um you know figure out if if anything is affecting you thoughts and prayers and then back to normal and that's kind of that's kind of the thing that uh that is happens all too often and um we're gonna not do that we're gonna you know we are going to do things during the show today that are going to seem, I think, oddly out of place. And I'm not talking about talking about this. I'm talking about doing some of our things like the scams and the stories and, you know, but, but if you don't like it, feel free to go to another radio station and, and, and, you know, figure that out yourself. But I think this is way too important and this has hit way too close to home for us to ignore. Austin, comment from you. It's Mojo on The Morning Show. How are you?

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Good. How are you guys?

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Good. You have a friend that's sister goes to Michigan State?

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Yeah. Actually, it's kind of a text last night. I just got wind of it. I just told him, I said, make sure you text your sister and all that. Obviously, they're going to do that no matter what. But he texted me and said the whole family was actually on their way to go get her. You know, the whole, she lives on campus. She's a freshman. I know maybe it might be sacrilegious to talk about it right now. But, you know, they were armed and they were going down there, you know, to protect themselves in the midst of everything. And it was very scary to.

00:07:13 - 00:07:19 | Speaker 2:

And they were heading down there before they knew that this guy was the lone shooter and took his life?

00:07:20 - 00:07:34 | Speaker 3:

Yeah. So it was one of those things where they wanted to get her out, you know, on their terms and, you know, try to get her out as quick as they can and just to maybe avoid something tragic.

00:07:35 - 00:08:23 | Speaker 2:

I mentioned earlier this morning, Austin, I mentioned that, you know, Chelsea and I were discussing what would we do if this was in a year from now and our son is going to school there and I said we would get in the car and go. And then I got a very nice note from one of our listeners who is actually a an East Lansing police officer and said you wouldn't be able to to to get around that it would be hampering the, you know, the operation. If you did go, you'd have to wait until after the case or after the fact that they knew once I think it was what, like 11 something that they ended up realizing that it was a lone shooter and then they were able to confront him and then he took his life. i think at that point then as a parent i would definitely bring my kid home like your your

00:08:23 - 00:08:35 | Speaker 1:

friends uh uh did and you know you'd want them to be yeah definitely they're bad does this change anything as you and chelsea are watching this happen knowing that your son's going there this

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this next year um you know it's gonna sound bad but my son goes to a high school that's literally down the road from oxford high school and that um that affected me so greatly because um his school went into lockdown and then he had to drive you know home right afterwards because they let him off i i like i feel like i'm being desensitized by all this um because i want him to have normalcy in his life you know what i mean like i want him to have normalcy but this is this This has become the new normal. This is crazy. You know? And I hate to say this, but this is... This is... This is... This keeps happening. And I don't care that I just said that, and I'm not even going to dump it, because I want you to hear it. And if you dumped it in Toledo and Grand Rapids, I wish you wouldn't have. Because this is crazy that this just keeps on happening, and that we can't... That we can't, you know, get our act together. And now, the thing that bums me out, And, you know, we're all going to go, why did this guy do this thing? Well, there's obvious reasons why he did it. This guy was not a normal person. This guy was a sick individual. And everybody's going to look for motives and they're going to do all that stuff. And honestly, I don't care what his motives are. But I think that this, you know, he.

00:10:00 - 00:10:42 | Speaker 1:

completely affected the the lives of uh definitely um eight people eight families by what he did by killing three of them and by uh critically yeah the other five and i pray that those five i pray those five come through and in there because i just do not want to see another person die This is just insane. And I will say this about Mike to go back to setting him off to school. I wish my kids would live in my freaking basement for the rest of their lives.

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I texted my girlfriends that last night. I want to lock them in a bubble in my house.

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And when you say it affects those eight families, it affects thousands of families because it constantly chips away. at your mental health and your anxiety of not being able to protect your own children 24 hours a day.

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When you guys woke up this morning, I felt heavy. I'm so sick of feeling heavy coming into this show.

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And going back to mental health, that's the other thing, too. I have no idea why this guy did this, but I'm going to tell you this. I guarantee this man had mental health issues. And we ignored that, too. You know, and guns is going to be a topic, and you know what? They should. And the interesting thing is they always do it. They always bring it up as a topic, and people will say, we got to control guns. And the funny thing is the people who are the most rhetoric of saying controlling guns never do anything to control guns. They bring it up that they're going to do something about this, and then you know what ends up happening? It falls by the wayside, and it doesn't happen. But mental health is such a big deal And it's going to get even worse If we don't pull ourselves together And try to figure this thing out This is just This is crazy This is absolutely crazy Becky what's up It's Mojo in the morning

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Hi honey How are you

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Good are you just trying to calm me down

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Oh I'm trying to I'm still trying to calm down My little cousin which is on my husband's side she is a student at michigan state and i me and my husband were literally just playing in bed watching a movie making sure that our three children were finally in bed and sleeping because we have a teenage son who is graduating high school and going off to college next year and then cnn popped into my phone and said breaking news shooting at msu and And I looked at my husband, and I was like, oh, my God, Hayden, which is his youngest cousin. And I started freaking out. I stayed up literally all night because my nerves would not let me go to sleep. I waited up all night waiting to hear some kind of news if she was okay, if anybody was okay.

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This is just ridiculous.

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And they're saying two days for grieving? Really? what student and staff is going to be ready in two days to just act like it's normal

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yeah i i'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt she's an interim president but i'm going to say that she just didn't know what to do as far as a two days thing i just can't understand that

00:13:27 - 00:13:47 | Speaker 2:

either but and i know um and then i just i while i was sitting waiting and listening you guys uh live where i live in brandon and so when you said something about the oxford shooting that literally hit home for me because we knew tate

00:13:47 - 00:13:59 | Speaker 4:

from oxford high school yeah tate uh tate was the football player yes and as you can tell it

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who really really hits who would be in college right now possibly even at michigan state university you know what i mean i mean i i don't know where i know that he was looking at central he was looking at going to a number of different schools but i knew that somebody mentioned michigan state and i only think about the fact that he should have he should be in college right

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now remember michigan state named him an honorary sparty dog yes yes yes they did and um we were all

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so grateful for that that even though like that was one of the colleges that he was looking at and everything else, after he was gone, that they did not forget that what he wanted to do in his life, they did. And they honored him with so much stuff, which is awesome, because he was such a great kid. My 16-year-old best friend had the honor of playing football with Tate, and that's how we knew him, because I was on every single football team.

00:15:00 - 00:15:20 | Speaker 3:

football game and so listen i hope this helps you this is the reason for that tech the texters that said you know you guys just need to do your regular show this is why we don't do our regular show because back no becky i i'm believing that you just talking to us is a a little bit of comfort

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for you yes it is you guys have been i have listened to you guys since high school no thanks for making me feel old well honey if it makes you feel any better i'll be 30 i'll be 38 oh great

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now you're making me feel older if the old shoe fits wear it mojo is that what you're saying

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no all right no i mean i still listen to casey casem so oh my god and he's dead how do you listen

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to him and he's dead um listen i gotta move to the next call thank you becky for calling and thanks for bringing up tate too because we should never forget uh dawn uh what's happening

00:15:58 - 00:17:11 | Speaker 1:

hi good morning um i just um wanted to share i mean my my daughter goes to msu and she um she says that um the acres for however you say it um i got a text from her last night i went to bed early because i wasn't feeling well and i felt my phone vibrating i knew it was ringing and i was trying to ignore it but i decided not to and so um i picked up and i saw my text and it was my daughter that has that was actually calling me but i read the text and it said there's an active shooter on campus i love you i love you and i called her back as quick as i could and thank god she answered she's terrified yeah and um i totally talked to her for a little while she said mom i i we hear stuff i have to get off the floor and be quiet yeah it was i man i am like living

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you right now as a parent and in what you i can only imagine uh that you know you're you're You're supposed to be her protector, and you're not able to be there with her when this is going on.

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It was horrible.

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I mean, my daughter's fine. It was horrible. All those innocent young people who are trying to make a way for themselves. in this world it's senseless it's disgusting but i thank god

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my baby's okay yeah how soon after the the initial text were you able to finally know everything was okay because i can't imagine you couldn't go

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back to bed at that point no i um as soon as i stopped ignoring my phone and picked it up and i saw her text i called her immediately and and she answered thank god and so i knew at that point she was okay um and then we um we couldn't believe that there was nothing on the news um we actually had to um i googled mfu news um they did actually send us email too but i wasn't thinking about looking at email you know i'm just trying to get in the know yeah right now and um and i think being

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in in detroit where you are right you're in the detroit area no i um i'm in lowell okay so yeah i I think what you probably turned out, okay, so I think that the Detroit, Grand Rapids, even Toledo News, they're so understaffed right now, the TV stations, and they're also so far from East Lansing that they didn't know what to do. And that's where I, and then the problem is, and I don't know if you did this, but you go on social media and that's the worst place to go to because, I mean, people were putting we made some posts try to keep some people updated last night and people were

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tagging viruses and stuff did you see that it takes minutes for these bots to figure out

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what people are looking for it's just insane but well well my my husband and i um well i was trying to i was clicking through trying to find news and i was on my phone my husband got a police scanner that one of my other daughters sent the app for mind you

00:20:00 - 00:20:25 | Speaker 2:

I have eight daughters, so this is one of my daughters. The other seven of my daughters were, yeah, they were on social media. They were doing that, and they were contacting me, and, you know, there was so much misinformation. There was, you know, three shooters, and this, you know, you all have discussed that, but, yeah, it was.

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Dawn?

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Yeah.

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I thank you for calling because you got us all crying this morning to hear what you went through and to know those families right now of the victims of this thing. I pray, pray, pray for them. I don't know how they're going to get comfort at all. This is just ridiculous.

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I don't think there is such a thing.

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um and i don't and and you have eight daughters that's unbelievable i i all i'm thinking about that is too can you imagine eight megan's and shannon's and kp's running around you are a saint i love you for calling thank you i i need to move to uh to do an update okay

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well thanks for letting me share take care all right thank you you too thank you love you god

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