(Washington) A suspect, visibly alone and on foot, opened fire on a campus in the northern United States on Monday evening and injured several people, Michigan State University police said, who called for to confine.
Gunshots were reported on the campus of Lansing, a city west of Detroit, and “several injuries are reported”, wrote the security service of the University on Twitter, assuring that “the police intervene. »
“The suspect is supposedly on foot at the moment,” he wrote, calling on residents “on campus and outside to confine themselves”. “We are still receiving numerous calls reporting an active shooter.”
“It appears there is only one suspect at this hour,” campus police added, describing him as “a small, possibly black, man with a mask.”
“Michigan State Police, University Police, local law enforcement, and emergency services are on scene,” state Governor Gretchen Whitmer wrote on Twitter. the situation.
The United States pays a very heavy price for the spread of firearms in its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them.
The country has more individual weapons than inhabitants: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and nearly one in two adults lives in a home where there is a weapon.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, unmatched by that of other developed countries.