When Anthony McRae died, he was carrying two 9 mm handguns, both purchased legally, neither of them registered.

He had eight loaded magazines in a backpack along with two empty magazines and a pouch filled with 9 mm ammunition.

He had a two-page handwritten note in his wallet that “indicated where he was going to visit, maybe a motive, but nothing we can confirm just yet,” said Michigan State Police Lt. Rene Gonzalez at a press conference Thursday morning.

McRae, 43, killed three people on Michigan State University’s campus Monday night: Brian Fraser and Arielle Anderson, both sophomores from Grosse Pointe, and Alexandria Verner, a junior from Clawson. He wounded five others.

And then, when two Lansing police officers confronted him near the intersection of Lake Lansing Road and Larch Street, ordering him to show his hands, he turned the gun on himself without saying a word, police said.

The note, Gonzalez said, listed a handful of targets. not just MSU but businesses that McRae seems to have had contact with, including the Meijer Distribution Center in Delta Township where he had worked and other places where employees had asked him to leave.

“It looks like a motive for that is that he felt slighted,” Gonzalez said.

The note also contained threats against two schools in New Jersey, where he once lived, and against a church and a claim that he would have help.

“He did indicate that there was he had a group of 20 (people) that were going to help him do what he intended to do,” Gonzalez said.

But his father, Michael McRae, told police that his son had no friends, that he “sits in his room all day, eats in that room,” Gonzalez said. Police are convinced that McRae acted alone.

They took a cell phone and “a journal of sorts” from the north Lansing home McRae shared with his father, but are still going through them, Gonzalez said.

Deputy MSU Police Chief Chris Rozman said police are still investigating whether McRae had some interaction with MSU. So far, they haven’t found a connection.

Police have managed to trace McRae’s 3.8-mile journey from campus to the place where he died. Nothing in what they saw indicated that he was intending more violence or even hurrying.

“It appears that he was just heading home,” Gonzalez said.

McRae’s neighbors said in the aftermath of the shooting that he would often fire a gun into his back yard and that the police had been called in response. On Thursday, Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee said his department can find no record of such a call.

Four of the five people injured in the shooting are still in critical condition “but I’m pleased that we’re seeing some signs of improvement in some students,” said interim MSU President Teresa Woodruff.

MSU officials received word during the press conference that one of the students had just been moved from critical condition to stable condition.

Police are not revealing the identities of the injured. One victim was identified as Guadalupe Huapilla-Perez on a GoFundMe site set up by family members. Another was a graduate of Okemos High School, according to a high school official. Two of those injured are international students from China, according to a statement released by the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said at a Wednesday night rally that she had spoken with one of the shooting victims, who said that another student had removed his shirt and pressed it to his wound, possibly saving his life.

The injured man is now “going to dedicate his life to teaching and fighting gun violence,” Whitmer said.

MSU was largely shut down on Tuesday and Wednesday, but employees returned to work today. Classes are cancelled through Sunday.

Woodruff said that Berkey Hall, where the shootings began, will remain closed for the remainder of the semester. The MSU Union, where they continued, is still being evaluated.