EAST LANSING - Michigan State University experienced a shooting near campus in January that resulted in the death of one of their students. While it was off-campus, it still shocked the students and staff.

"Honestly after the Cedar Village shooting, I was a little bit shaken up," said Jacquelynn Derrig, senior at Michigan State University. "I thought they took kind of a long time notifying the students of what was actually going on."

But, with a recent false alarm regarding a training weapon, MSU Police Department did not waste any time alerting students and staff and also letting them know that it was safe.

"I thought they did much better notifying people right away and it made me feel much better knowing that they are kind of figuring that out," Jacquelynn said.

Jacquelynn and one of her other classmates were informed about the possible threat through the MSU Alert System. However, these alerts only contain information about the situation and some people think faculty and students could benefit from more information.

"Overall it doesn't really tell people what to do, so besides like take care. be careful, I think the more knowledge the better in those type of situations," said Lauren Morrison, junior at Michigan State University.

Some of the professors were prepared even though they were not in the threatened building.

"I felt like our professor actually did a great job. You could tell that he was really shaken up but right away right when we notified him of that, we put a thing in front of the window in the room blocking the door and made all the other students move to the side that you couldn't be able to see through and we also found some storage closets that we were able to go into if we heard something going on," Jacquelynn said.