McRae killed himself later that evening when confronted by police in Lansing while walking home. McRae left a note in his pocket that detailed some sort of manifesto and a list of other targets, whose common traits are not self-evident. 

Authorities now regularly delete social media profiles and suppress information about shooter motives so that they can always control the narrative on shooter motives. McRae's social media is a confusing mix of posts about exorcisms even it was reported he was not personally religious.

Even though Michigan does not have formal party registration, different data vendors track information about every registered voter in order to determine which messages and issues to market to those individual registered voters.