“It’s probably one of the most scariest things I’ve ever heard in my life.” “I’ve never heard a gunshot before,” said Joyeux Times, 16, who had been chatting with friends before her physics class when the shooting began. A court official said during a hearing that he did not have a previous juvenile record. The sheriff said that the district had no record that the suspect had been bullied at school, and that he did not believe that specific students were targeted in the attack. And he said deputies had investigated a possible threat last month, but found that it was not credible and pertained to a school in a different state.
He said an incident from earlier in November involving a severed deer head at the school was not related to the shooting.
The sheriff also said his office had no indication of danger at Oxford High before the shooting. Asked whether law enforcement should have been notified, he said, “We always prefer to err on the side of too much rather than too little.”
His parents were also summoned to the school for the Tuesday meeting.ĭespite those concerns, Sheriff Bouchard said his agency had received no information about the suspect before the shooting. No bond was set.Īt a Wednesday news conference, Sheriff Bouchard said the suspect had been called into meetings with school officials for concerning behavior twice this week, once on Monday and then in the hours before the shooting on Tuesday. Crumbley had initially been held in a juvenile jail, but a judge later ordered that he be moved to the adult jail and held in isolation, with no contact with adult inmates. Sheriff Bouchard also said investigators had not determined a motive for the shooting, which he described as “absolutely brutally coldhearted.” There have been 29 shootings on school property this year, most of them without fatalities, according to a tally by Education Week. McDonald, an elected Democrat, said she hoped the shooting would prompt changes in Michigan’s gun laws, expressing exasperation that her community had become the latest to be devastated by a deadly school shooting. “Those are victims too, and so are their families and so is the community,” she said. McDonald, acknowledged that her decision to charge the suspect with terrorism was not typical for a mass shooting prosecution, but she said it reflected the wider trauma suffered by the hundreds of students who fled gunshots, hid under their desks and will be haunted for years. A teacher, the only wounded adult, was discharged from a hospital on Tuesday. Juliana, 14 Madisyn Baldwin, 17 and Tate Myre, 16, who died in a sheriff’s squad car while on the way to a hospital.Īt least two of the injured students, who officials said ranged in age from 14 to 17, remained in critical condition. at McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Mich., according to the sheriff’s office. The toll of the shooting grew on Wednesday after a fourth student, Justin Shilling, 17, died at about 10 a.m. He still had 18 rounds in his possession when he was apprehended, they said. Crumbley fired more than 30 rounds as terrified students raced for safety and locked themselves inside classroom doors barricaded by desks, the authorities said.