Security operatives arrest 19-yr-old Michigan University attacker

After hours of intense manhunt by security operatives, James Eric Davis Jr, 19, the gunman who killed two people believed to be his parents at the Central Michigan University (CMU) has been arrested.

The suspect who is now in police custody was known to police, as they took him to a hospital the night before the incident for a “drug-related type of incident – an overdose or a bad reaction to drugs,” police spokesman Larry Klaus told reporters at a news conference.

Reports say Eric allegedly killed the couple in a residence hall on Friday morning when they came to pick him up for a week-long spring break and fled after the shooting on a train passing through the end of campus after midnight.

Read also: FLORIDA: Gunman kills 17 people, wounds 14 others at a local high school

Officials said they believed the shooting “started from a domestic situation”.

The incident is coming more than two weeks after a similar attack at a local high school in Florida when a 19-year-old student who was expelled from the institution opened fire killing no less than 17 people and injured 14 others.

According to reports, the suspect identified as Nikolas Cruz who was later arrested by policemen is a student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in southeastern Florida.

He started shooting outside the school using a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle before entering the premises where he continued his shooting spree.

 

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