Oxford High School Shooting: ‘No discipline given’ to alleged shooter before rampage

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald told CNN there was a “high probability” Crumbley used the gun he allegedly used in the backpack shooting during the meeting.

“During Covid, they didn’t use lockers, so they just had backpacks,” she said.

“Unfortunately, he was allowed back into the classroom, and we now know that he was carrying a weapon at the time, and that was simply tragic,” McDonald said.

The school’s video surveillance cameras will allow investigators to “really map out exactly and literally what the perpetrator did” from that meeting through the shooting and into custody, Bouchard told CNN “New Day” on Friday morning.

The shooter was carrying the gun “on his person or in his backpack or somehow secretly” it was far from the school site, he said.

Another warning sign came on Monday – the day before the shooting – when another teacher “saw and heard something she found disturbing” regarding Crumbley’s conduct in the classroom. classroom, Bouchard said. School officials held a consultation with Crumbley about the behavior in question and his parents were notified by phone, Bouchard added.

Both McDonald’s and Bouchard declined to expand on the details of the meetings or the behavior that prompted them.

Parents may be charged on Fridays

Bouchard said the semi-automatic handgun recovered in the attack was purchased by Crumbley’s father on November 26, four days before the shooting occurred.

McDonald’s is expected to announce on Friday if charges will be filed against Crumbley’s parents, she told CNN. Prosecutors are looking into information regarding the gun’s purchase and its accessibility and storage, among other details. Authorities said the weapon was a 9mm Sig Sauer SP2022 pistol.

A photo of the pistol believed to have been used in the shooting was posted to the Instagram account a few days earlier, a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the matter told CNN.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office believes the account belongs to Ethan Crumbley, the source said.

“I just got my new beauty today. SIG SAUER 9mm,” the reader captioned the post, which is no longer online but has been widely shared on social media.

Crumbley cannot legally possess a weapon or take it outside the home, with some exceptions, such as going to a shooting range, Bouchard said Friday. An important question would involve how the teen got his hands on the gun – perhaps he broke into something to get it, for example.

Crumbley’s defense attorney on Wednesday asked the court to plead not guilty on behalf of his client. CNN has been trying to reach Crumbley’s parents and is trying to identify their attorney and a new attorney for their son.

School is like a ‘war zone,’ said the proctor

Two days after the deadly attack, Oxford High School was “like a war zone,” Throne told his community from the school in the 13-minute video posted on YouTube.

“The high school is now a ruin,” he said, adding that repairs could take weeks.

Throne commends students and staff for how they handled the threat from an active shooter, with some administrators performing CPR and students using tables and chairs to barricade the interior of the classroom. learn to protect.

Bouchard said more than 100 calls to 911 were made to report the shooting when police arrived at the school at 12:52 p.m. local time. Within “two to three minutes” of the officers’ arrival, the shooter surrendered.

“I believe they literally saved lives, after taking out the suspect with a loaded gun in the building,” the sheriff said.

The superintendent acknowledged district officials did not communicate quickly and said he is working to meet the parents of the four students killed in the shooting.

“I apologize to our staff today because we didn’t communicate with each other sooner, and that’s okay. It’s okay because in this case we have to read the book and simply we can’t communicate things until others have communicated,” Throne explained. “And this is the most information we can give you today.”