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MSU killer Anthony McRae struggled with mental illness and had been a 'paranoid schizophrenic' prior to engaging in a mass shooting that killed three students on Monday, his uncle has revealed.
Speaking in a tell-all interview, Timothy McRae said that his nephew's mental woes worsened after his mother died from a stroke in 2020, where at which point he quit his warehouse job to instead play video games at his father's home in Lansing. His father yesterday told reporters his son had been a 'mama's boy.'
McRae, 43, had been living with his father at the secluded house at the end of a dead-end street just a five minute's drive from where he committed the killings, and where he would eventually shoot himself after being confronted with police.
Providing insight to the shooter's psyche, McRae's uncle said that cops should have dealt with his troubled relative after a 2019 incident where he was cuffed for carrying a loaded handgun.
He added that when he and other relatives stepped in to try to get the then struggling McRae, he brushed them off, and lived as a virtual recluse at his father's home.
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MSU killer Anthony McRae struggled with mental illness and had been a 'paranoid schizophrenic' prior to Monday's shooting, his uncle revealed in a telephone interview
Speaking over the phone Timothy McRae revealed that his nephew's mental woes worsened after his mother died from a stroke in 2020
'He definitely was a paranoid schizophrenic, we know that for a fact,' uncle Timothy Told the Post in a telephone interview.
He added: 'Mental illness is a real thing.
The uncle's words came less than 48-hours after McRae ruthlessly gunned down junior Arielle Anderson, sophomore Brian Fraser and junior Alexandria
