Did a Michigan campus narrowly avert a massacre like the Florida shooting?
LANSING - This week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school was like a gut punch to Lansing Community College students and faculty, who may have narrowly averted a massacre just three months ago.
That potential tragedy, which received only fleeting media attention, was thwarted by a phone call to police by a worried friend ‒ the type of quick action that in an era of easy access to assault-style weapons may be the most likely way to head off mass shootings.
“Every time one of these things happen, when I hear about it on the news, I think, this could have been our campus,” said Tami Matthews, a staff employee at the school who was on campus that day in November.
Damian Douglas Walker, a 19-year-old student at the community college, was arrested at his suburban Lansing home Nov. 29. Police found an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, 12 loaded magazines, another rifle and loose ammunition, police told media at the time.
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