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Mark Totten is a leading federal prosecutor with longstanding ties to Michigan State University — and when he learned this week that the campus was the site of another mass shooting, he immediately got to work.
«I spent a decade on the campus of Michigan State University and taught at the law school, knew the campus well, interacted with hundreds and hundreds of students,» Totten, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan, . «It’s a place like so many of our universities that has a distinct community. People come there to learn, to build the relationships that are part of learning — and in an instant, that was all shattered.»
Anthony McRae opened fire in two buildings on the MSU campus in East Lansing on Monday night, killing three students and injuring five others, according to authorities. As officers later closed in, he fatally shot himself.
Totten, who is one of the top federal law enforcement officials in Lansing, called the violence «sobering.»
«I think it gripped every single person in Michigan and outside of Michigan,» he said.
