“Report it”: Dispatch audio theory debunked as Lynn Dee Walker denies connection with Michigan State University shooting
James Bradley
Published Jan 18, 2026
On Monday, February 13, 2022, three individuals were killed and no less than five others were harmed after a mass shooter started shooting at Michigan State College.
While police were all the while attempting to find the suspect, online detectives staying aware of the well established tech custom started to spread falsehood after a Facebook post shared a phony photograph of the shooter and “distinguished” him as “Lynn Dee Walker,” pronouncing his arrangements to go after the Michigan grounds.
The phony photograph before long circulated around the web and was seen by a large number of individuals driving the individual in the image, who goes by the name R. Cam on Twitter, to deny any association with the Michigan State College shooting and beseeched individuals to report the reposts.
The made up post has since been erased, yet not before it was caught by a netizen who utilized it to expose bogus stories on the web.
Police have since recognized the suspect as a 41-year-old dark male who supposedly shot himself at an off-grounds area after a short a conflict with the officials.
According to various reports, on Monday night around 8:18 p.m., a mass shooter entered the Berkey Corridor, a scholarly structure on the East Lansing grounds, and started shooting prior to moving into the Michigan State College Association building.
Understudies at the scene alarmed the specialists when the main shots were discharged, and the dispatcher portrayed the awful occurrence as it was being worked out nearby to assist police with finding the dynamic shooter who was currently on the loose at that point.
While police attempted to capture the suspect, who was currently at large, a Facebook post made an imaginary shooter naming him Lynn Dee Walker and presented an image on spread falsehood.
The phony photograph was likewise dispersed on a blog webpage that incorrectly guaranteed that the dispatch sound distinguished “Lynn Dee Walker” as the shooter, however there is no proof to support the veracity of their cases.
As the post circulated around the web, the individual in the image, who goes by the name R.CAM on Twitter, denied being the shooter and requested that individuals erase the image. His tweet read:
“I’m at my home in western Massachusetts perusing with my better half, on the off chance that you see in a real sense anyone spreading this s**t, kindly inspire them to erase it. I don’t request a lot and I must be exposed to this kind of s**t for your sake. Help me over here.”
While some blog destinations started covering the made up suspect, Philip Lewis, a senior first page proofreader at the Huffington Post, exposed the misleading story on the web.
Lewis, with some essential exploration, demonstrated that “Walker” was not the suspect in the Michigan college occurrence later “Walker” tweeted an image of himself from his home while the genuine suspect was currently on the loose nearby. His tweet read:
“Reports of a “Lynn Dee Walker” as the dynamic shooter at Michigan State are Mistaken. I’ve added one more image of him, check the timestamp.”
In the mean time, in a public interview, police delivered a photograph of the genuine suspect, whose name is yet to be uncovered, after he was caught on observation camera.
Police are yet to uncover the rationale behind the assault as they keep on examining the occurrence.