LANSING — The city’s mayor, police chief and the leader of Lansing schools on Wednesday laid blame on the media for a series of conflicting statements about last week’s shooting that wounded two teens.
“The Lansing School District and Lansing Police Department, as well as the Chief and Mayor and Superintendent, continue to be in agreement on this description of events and any attempt to portray this otherwise is false,” the statement read. “The police had no intention to make any implication, as portrayed in the media, that the Superintendent or the Lansing School District were inaccurate in their depiction of the events.”
The statement was from Mayor Andy Schor, Police Chief Robert Backus and Lansing School District Superintendent Ben Shuldiner.
The statement added: “Both the Lansing School District and the Lansing Police Department will continue to strongly collaborate to ensure that our students are safe both in our community and while in school. We stand together in support of our youth and against gun violence in our city.”