Live updates: Michigan State University shooting, East Lansing campus

Gabe Treutel, a freshman at Michigan State College, advised CNN he and his roommates are hunkered down and are listening to police scanners because the taking pictures incident on campus continues.  

Treutel says he was simply sitting at his desk in his West Akers dorm room, taking a quiz for his chemistry lab when he obtained an e-mail alert from the college warning him of pictures being fired on campus. 

That’s when he and his roommates turned on a neighborhood police scanner being broadcast on-line. Though police scanners are helpful instruments for monitoring police actions and exercise throughout conditions like these, they typically comprise unconfirmed and in the end confirmed false stories of shooters and pictures being fired.

CNN can’t affirm there have been pictures fired at that dorm, and isn’t naming it presently. Treutel stated that he didn’t hear any gunshots.

“That was actually scary,” he stated.

Treutel and his dorm mates started barricading their door, simply in case a shooter got here inside.  

That’s when he started searching the window and noticed quite a lot of police automobiles and police carrying lengthy rifles.  

Treutel heard one other name on the scanner saying there was a report the shooter at one other dorm, a few block away. CNN can’t affirm there have been pictures fired at that dorm and isn’t naming it presently.

Treutel stated that he didn’t hear any gunshots, then, both.

Moments later, after he says police “cleared” the doorway to the West Akers dorm, Treutel captured a rush of scholars flooding out of its entrance. 

Some background: At a information briefing Monday night time, Interim Deputy Police Chief Chris Rozman cautioned that there was numerous misinformation about extra shootings being shared on social media and by way of police scanners. “We strongly encourage you to observe the correct data,” he stated.