MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (WOOD) — Students and parents on Central Michigan University’s campus were escorted to a local hotel to wait out a lockdown caused by a double-murder in a residence hall Friday morning.
As students were reunited with their parents at the Comfort Inn on the south side of Mount Pleasant, they provided perspective on what it was like on the usually busy 23,000 student campus while it was on lockdown status.
“It’s just crazy,” said Keara Borum, a sophomore from Detroit. “I have no other words, except that it’s crazy.”
Parents had another point of view, especially those who were hours away when they got the call from their frightened sons and daughters.
“I was on the phone with her when I was leaving the house and she told me and I thought maybe it’s somebody was playing a joke with firecrackers. Then I realized it was gunshots and I could not get up here quick enough,” said Borum’s mother, Venita Weekes.
The lockdown started when James Davis Sr. and Diva Davis were shot and killed on the fourth floor of Campbell Hall Friday morning. Police have identified their son, James Eric Davis, Jr., as a suspect and have been searching for him since the incident.
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