A Feb. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two photos of a white man in dark-rimmed glasses and a black shirt.
"#BREAKING: Michigan State University SHOOTING SUSPECT is 21 year old 'Lynn Dee Walker' according to dispatch audio," reads the post's caption. "He is still on the loose and considered armed and dangerous."
The post was shared more than 50 times in less than a day. Other versions of the claim accumulated thousands of interactions across multiple platforms before they were deleted.
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The post misidentifies the name, age and race of the suspected shooter. Police have identified the shooter at Michigan State University as 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae, a Black man.
Police say McRae is the shooter who killed three students and wounded five others Monday night at Michigan State University, as USA TODAY previously reported.
Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of campus police, named McRae as the suspect at a media briefing Tuesday morning, while also noting McRae had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
McRae was also identified as the "person who committed these homicides" in a tweet from the verified Twitter account of the school's campus police.
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