Michigan State University

Authorities ordered students and staff to shelter in place after a report of shots fired around Berkey Hall, an academic building, and IM East, ...

Authorities announced late Monday that all campus activities would be canceled for 48 hours, including athletics and classes. The East Lansing High School auditorium, where a school board meeting was being held Monday night, was locked down and people were being prevented by police from leaving, the Lansing State Journal reported. In an alert sent shortly after 8:30 p.m., campus police reported a “shots fired incident occurring on or near the East Lansing campus.” The alert advised students and staff to “Secure-in-Place immediately” and to monitor alert.msu.edu for information. Aedan Kelley, a junior who lives a half-mile (less than a kilometer) east of campus, said he locked his doors and covered his windows “just in case.” Sirens were constant, he said, and a helicopter hovered overhead. [shootings](https://globalnews.ca/tag/shooting) Monday night at [Michigan State University](https://globalnews.ca/tag/michigan-state-university), police said. [Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists](https://globalnews.ca/news/9474534/solar-polar-vortex-sun-flare/)