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There were so many memorials that popped up around campus, now we know what those items will be used for & its amazing.

Thursday marked 17 days since the Feb. 17 shooting.

“I spent all day on campus just to see everybody and try to come back to normal a little bit," said Jarrett Maki.

In Tuesday's News Hit: - A consequential land swap deal in Southwest Detroit with the Moroun family - MSU students returned to class one week after a mass shooting stunned the university - A barricaded gunman scene in Grosse Pointe Shores ended with one man's arrest Monday night

Stayed to literally try to put their hands to staunch the bleeding for those that were dying. i know youre an alumna of the university and you know it very well. it was clear the night it was happening you knew exactly the locations and could give us such specific descriptions. how is this impacting that community? >> reporter: erin, spartans are strong, but part of that strength, well, i shouldnt say but because that would erase what i said before. and part of that strength is admitting when yo...

Picture with sparty on the last day of class when youre in your cap and gown and you look back and you see what has changed. think about those students who took a picture four years ago, the ones who are supposed to graduate in a few months, they will look back and say, hey, i am now a survivor of a mass shooting. something some of them tell me they thought would never happen. i think about the times me and my friends returned to campus. we come back here for celebrations, i came back when my yo...

It’s been a challenging week for students still on the campus of Michigan State University. Empty classrooms and empty sidewalks are all a reminder of what took place less than 72 hours earlier.

The memorial at the Sparty Statue continues to grow as students, alumni, and members of the community come together to pay their respects to their classmates who lost their lives.

Morning in michigan with more on the shooting that has left that campus, that community yet one more campus, yet one more community grieving. cnns adrienne broaddus and josh campbell join us. adrienne, like i said, you look at those pictures of those young people, three young lives snuffed out, their families are suffering, their friends are suffering, what more do we know about them? >> reporter: i think about those parents, parents who will now plan funerals instead of celebrations. i think ab...

Out after those kids lived through a school shooting 15 months ago and we have children in michigan who are living through their second school shooting in under a year and a half. if this is not a wake-up call to do something, i dont know what is. >> reporter: so a lot of emotion there as you can imagine as shes talking about those students who were in their senior year when that oxford school shooting happened and now they are freshmen here at michigan state university. for those of you who may...