Business major Dominique Nolff (Facebook photo)
Police are searching for the gunman who opened fire on two Michigan State University students inside their apartment, killing one, WWJ reports.
Dominique Nolff, a 20-year-old sophomore from Hastings in Barry County, died early Saturday, according to family members. He was a hospitality business major.
“He was a gentlemen; he loved people,” aunt Heather Bush, 35, tells The Grand Rapids Press. “He would do anything for anybody. . . . His life was taken so short.”
Earlier article, 2 p.m.:
East Lansing detectives have a good description of a gunman who fled a Friday night shooting that wounded two MSU students in their Cedar Street apartment.
The crime "does not appear to be a random act,” a police statement says.
One student was hospitalized Saturday in critical condition, according to a police account in the Lansing State Journal, and the other was released after treatment.
Scott Davis of the paper interviews a 23-year senior living in the 200 block of Cedar, who makes a revealing comment about life at Cedar Village Apartments:
“We were leaving last night and heard some noises,” John Gaiser said. “They [police] chased a guy out of the building tackled him to the ground. It’s not weird to see cops on that street.”
Among student housing communities, Cedar Village Apartments has a reputation for raucous parties that sometimes result in police intervention. When the MSU football team earned a spot in the Rose Bowl in early December, revelers burned trash and furniture in large bonfires on Cedar Street, leading dozens of riot-gear equipped police to quell the disturbance.
