There are no discipline records at the high school.” “He was, you know, called up to the office and all that kind of stuff,” Tim Throne said in a video statement. The district’s school superintendent said Thursday that no discipline was needed against Crumbley after that meeting. “That morning, looking at that drawing, it’s impossible not to conclude that there was a reason to believe he was going to hurt somebody,” she said. The parents resisted the idea of taking their son out of school, McDonald said, and he was allowed to return to the classroom. During that meeting, Ethan Crumbley had the gun in his backpack, which was not searched, McDonald said. The distressing picture led school officials to hold a meeting with the accused shooter and his parents, who were instructed to help provide counseling for their son within 48 hours. Below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji,” McDonald said. “Between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is a drawing of a person who appears to have been shot twice and bleeding. The words “my life is useless” and “the world is dead” were also written on the drawing. The illustration showed a “semiautomatic handgun pointing at the words ‘the thoughts won’t stop help me,'” and it included a drawing of a bullet with the words “blood everywhere” written above it, she said. It “alarmed her to the point that she took a picture of it on her cell phone,” the prosecutor said.
On Tuesday morning, another teacher found a drawing on the accused shooter’s desk that essentially depicted a shooting, McDonald said. Tim Willis of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.Īnother piece of evidence is a journal found in Crumbley’s backpack that details his “desire to shoot up the school to include murdering students,” Willis said at the arraignment. In two videos on Crumbley’s phone that were recorded that night, he talked about shooting and killing students at the high school, said Lt. You have to learn not to get caught,” McDonald said. Later on Monday, Jennifer Crumbley sent him a text message saying, “LOL I’m not mad at you. The teacher notified school officials, who contacted the parents via phone and email, but they did not respond. Jennifer Crumbley also posted about the gun on social media over the weekend, saying, “mom and son day testing out his new Christmas present,” McDonald said.Īnd during the weekend, Jennifer Crumbley took her son to a shooting range, a law enforcement source told CNN.Īs classes resumed after the long Thanksgiving holiday, a teacher noticed Ethan Crumbley searching the web for ammunition, McDonald said.
SIG SAUER 9mm” with a heart-eyes emoji, McDonald said at a news conference on Friday. James Crumbley bought the gun authorities believe was used in the shooting on November 26 at an Oxford store with his son, according to Karen McDonald, the Oakland County prosecutor who is leading the case.Īround the same day, the alleged shooter posted a photo of a handgun on an Instagram account with the caption, “Just got my new beauty today. The parents pleaded not guilty Saturday, and were being held on bond set at $500,000 each. After failing to turn up at their arraignment, they were arrested in Detroit. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were each charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in connection with their son’s alleged actions. In court on Wednesday, his lawyer, Scott Kozak, asked to enter a not-guilty plea during the arraignment, saying “my client is standing mute.” The high school sophomore is facing a slew of charges as an adult, including first-degree murder, terrorism and other accusations. “A preliminary review of the defendant’s social media accounts, his cellphone, as well as other documented evidence recovered on scene showed that this defendant planned this shooting, he deliberately brought the handgun that day with the intent to murder as many students as he could,” Prosecutor Marc Keast said during Crumbley’s arraignment on Wednesday. While the bursts of gunfire lasted only minutes, authorities said there is substantial evidence that it was a premeditated attack by the accused shooter, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley. Juliana, 14 and Justin Shilling, 17, authorities said.
The four students who died were Madisyn Baldwin, 17 Tate Myre, 16 Hana St. Unleashed was the deadliest school shooting on a K-12 campus in the US since May 2018, forever scarring the Oxford community in suburban Detroit. And then we heard the rest of the gunshots go off, more screams,” Cumbey told CNN.Īuthorities say at least 30 shots were fired, killing four students and wounding six other teenagers along with one teacher before the alleged shooter - a student at Oxford High school - was detained by police with rounds still in his handgun. “My teacher, he walked into the classroom he locked the door, and he told us to call 911.