EAST LANSING (WWJ) — Tuesday, Feb. 13 marks the one-year anniversary of the Michigan State University shooting that claimed the lives of three students and left five others severely injured.
With no classes on the 13th, Tuesday will be a day of reflection, culminating with a community remembrance near the Spartan Statue on campus that evening. The event will run 7:30-9:30 p.m.
There will be five reflective spaces on campus open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, while the Alumni Chapel will be open until 8 p.m.
The Healing Through Kindness and Service event, running from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday “provides a space for the MSU community to come together both on and off campus on the anniversary” of the shooting”.
Kindness activities include writing notes of support and gift-making to keep personally or share with others. Service activities include packaging supply kits for K-12 students and families for Lansing and East Lansing Public Schools, Edgewood Village and the MSU Student Parent Resource Center, and decorating brown sack lunch bags for Kids Food Basket .