The mass shooting Monday night at Michigan State University in which three people were killed and five others were hurt put local officials on alert here in Rockland. Sheriff Lou Falco says whether there is a local connection or not, shootings of that scope always hit local authorities’ radar…
43-year-old Anthony McRae killed himself after the shooting spree. Investigators later found years ago he lived in Ewing Township, New Jersey, near Trenton. The school district there closed Tuesday after McRae was found with a note reportedly threatening Ewing schools. In the most recent mass shooting, two men were reportedly taken into custody late yesterday after an incident at an El Paso, Texas, mall left one dead and three people injured. We’re now up to 72 mass shootings for the year so far.