MSU Shooter Described Himself As A Loner, Outcast In Handwritten Note

EAST LANSING, MI — A man who fatally shot three Michigan State University students and wounded five others described himself as a loner and outcast in a handwritten note police found on him after he took his own life a few miles from the campus.

The Michigan State University Department of Police and Public released images of the note on Friday morning.

"Why? Why? Why? I've been hurt," the shooter, Anthony McRae, who also claimed to be the leader of about 20 people, wrote at the top of the note.

"Every Where I go people treat me different. I don't want to be an American african I m a person Why do people hate me? They never accepted me," the note read. "I'm tired of being rejected, outcast, loner, people hate me, They made me who I'm am today a killer."

The note was dated Feb. 12, a day before police said McRae opened fire at Michigan State University, killing 19-year-old Arielle Anderson of Harper Woods, 20-year-old Alexandria Verner of Clawson and 20-year-old Brian Fraser of Grosse Pointe.

Two shooting victims remained in the hospital, while three others have been released, according to the latest update from Sparrow Hospital.

The note also indicated that his group was going to shoot up a university in Colorado Springs, and threatened violence at locations in East Lansing, Old Town Lansing, Holt, DeWitt and New Jersey. Police redacted the specific targets to protect the privacy of outside entities.

There were also several sad faces with tears on the front and back of the note, with the words "They hate me" repeated in the corner.

Officers found McRae dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound roughly four miles from campus, where he had opened fire 3 hours and 31 minutes earlier, police said. Along with the two-page note, police also found two guns on him with multiple magazines of ammunition.

Although the note provided context behind the shooting, police still couldn't determine a motive, as there's no known connection between McRae and the university. He was not a current or former student, nor a staff or facility member, police said.

While McRae wrote in the note that he was acting with others, police determined he acted alone and was not working with other people.

"My father as nothing to do with this," McRae wrote in the note.