Monday night's gunshots killed three and badly injured five.
Some kids experienced sorrow, rage, and disbelief again.
EAST LANSING—
Many on the enormous Michigan State University campus felt a sickening familiarity when bullets erupted late on Monday, killing three students and injuring five more.
They were children when the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., killed 26 students, teachers, and staff.
Nine years later, the Oxford High School massacre in a Detroit suburb killed four teens.
Now college-aged, it was happening again.
“It's really surreal,” said Emma Riddle, an 18-year-old Michigan State freshman who was on campus on Monday and a senior at Oxford High during that incident.
“We experienced this 14 months ago.
What's up? The now familiar rituals of sorrow, fury, and disbelief returned on Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead and 17 injured.
The victims were Harper Woods sophomore Arielle Diamond Anderson, Grosse Pointe sophomore Brian Fraser, and Clawson junior Alexandria Verner. In a telephone interview, her grandfather, Dwayne Thomas, said Ms. Anderson, who liked roller skating and Michigan State basketball games, was studying to become a doctor to assist others.
He called her a living angel.
Berkey Hall, one of the buildings where...