On eve of MSU mass shooting anniversary, former student sues university

A former Michigan State University student who was in Room 114 at Berkey Hall when a gunman shot several classmates, two fatally, nearly two years ago sued the university Wednesday.

The complaint, filed one day before the second anniversary of the mass shooting that killed three students and wounded five others on Feb. 13, 2023, argues MSU officials could and should have prevented the incident.

The former student, Justin Bowman, claims the mass shooting at Berkey Hall and the MSU Union was “entirely preventable,” and that the actions of former interim President Teresa Woodruff and former Chief Safety Officer Marlon Lynch made the campus unsafe for students.

“Each and every Defendant named herein created and increased the dangers then-existing at Michigan State University,” Bowman’s Southfield-based attorney Nora Hanna argued in the lawsuit. “Each and every Defendant named herein committed conduct amounting to gross negligence, causing serious and permanent physical and emotional trauma to Plaintiff and others.”

Read more: Lansing State Journal