One was a star football player. Another was on the school’s bowling team.
A 15-year-old is charged with killing four students, including a 17-year-old boy who died in the hospital on Wednesday. Authorities said the suspect’s parents had met with school officials just hours before the shooting. Prosecutors filed murder and terrorism charges against the suspect. The Michigan school attack was ‘absolutely’ premeditated, a prosecutor says. Here’s what we know about the students who were killed at Oxford High. A student where the shooting started didn’t know ‘if I was going to live or die.’ The Michigan shooting was the deadliest on school property in the U.S. this year. transcript I want to express my deepest condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of the victims. Hana St. Juliana, Madisyn Baldwin, Tate Myre and Justin Shilling. We are charging this individual with one count of terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. And I am absolutely sure, after reviewing the evidence that it isn’t even a close call. It was absolutely premeditated. The children that I have just listed and those that were injured, they’re the victims in the first-degree murder charges and the assault with intent to murder. But what about all these other children? What about all the children who ran, screaming, hiding under desks? What about all the children at home right now, who can’t eat and can’t sleep, and can’t imagine a world where they could ever step back — foot back in that school? Those are victims, too, and so are their families, and so as a community, and the charge of terrorism reflects that. Prosecutors in suburban Detroit on Wednesday charged a 15-year-old boy with terrorism and first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of four of his classmates in a shooting spree on Tuesday at Oxford High School. The boy, Ethan Crumbley, was being charged as an adult, said Karen D. McDonald, the Oakland County prosecutor. In addition to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of terrorism causing death, Mr. Crumbley faces seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Ms. McDonald said she is also considering charges against the suspect’s parents, who had a face-to-face meeting with school officials on Tuesday — roughly three hours before the shooting — about the suspect’s behavior in the classroom, according to the Oakland County sheriff, Michael Bouchard. Sheriff Bouchard said the suspect had also met with school officials about concerning behavior on Monday, the day before the shooting. He declined to specify the nature of that behavior, but said law enforcement agencies had not been notified. The sheriff said the district had no record that the suspect had been bullied at school, and he did not believe specific students were targeted in the attack. During a video arraignment on Wednesday afternoon, authorities told a judge that investigators had recovered two separate videos from the suspect’s cellphone, which were made the night before the incident. He talked about shooting and killing students the next day at Oxford High. A journal in his backpack also detailed his desire to shoot up the school, authorities said. The suspect, who had no previous juvenile record, according to a court official, appeared at his arraignment Wednesday afternoon via video from a juvenile detention facility. His parents, who identified themselves as Jennifer and James Crumbley, were also on the video conference observing the arraignment. His lawyer pleaded not guilty on his behalf. The announcement of charges came just hours after a fourth student, Justin Shilling,17, died at about 10 a.m. at McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Mich., the authorities said. The other students killed in the shooting had been previously identified as Hana St. Juliana,14; Madisyn Baldwin,17; and Tate Myre,16, who died in a sheriff’s squad car while on the way to a hospital. Seven other people were injured. The suspect emerged from a bathroom on Tuesday and started firing at students in the school’s hallway, the authorities said on Wednesday after reviewing video footage of the attack. Sheriff Bouchard said investigators were poring through many hours of video from security cameras to track the suspect’s actions, but his targets “appeared random.” Prosecutors said it was clear that the suspect planned the shooting. “He methodically and deliberately walked down the hallway, aiming the firearm at students and firing,” said Marc Keast, an assistant prosecuting attorney, at the court arraignment. He added, “He deliberately brought the handgun that day with the intent to murder as many students as he could.” Sheriff Bouchard said investigators had determined no possible motive for the shooting, which he described as “absolutely brutally cold hearted.” The suspect was being held at a juvenile jail early Wednesday, under suicide watch. Because of the charges against him, a judge later ordered that he moved to the adult jail and held in isolation, with no contact with adult inmates. No bond was set. The gunman fired about 30 shots with a semiautomatic handgun before being apprehended with 18 live rounds still in his possession, the authorities said. When the boy’s parents went to a sheriff’s substation after the shooting, they declined to let investigators question their child, Undersheriff McCabe said. The sheriff told reporters on Tuesday that a 9-millimeter Sig Sauer handgun used in the shooting had been bought four days earlier by the suspect’s father. Sheriff Bouchard said investigators had been told that the gunman pretended to be an officer in order to access barricaded classrooms, but later said that reviewing video evidence confirmed that he had not knocked on doors. “We know from physical evidence he shot through doors up and down more than one hallway,” the sheriff said on Wednesday. The injured students ranged in age from 14 to 17, officials said, including at least two who remained in critical condition. The only adult who was shot, a 47-year-old female teacher, was discharged from a hospital on Tuesday. — Jennifer Conlin, Mitch Smith and Sophie Kasakove PONTIAC, Mich. — Prosecutors said the 15-year-old boy accused of killing four classmates at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit on Tuesday had planned the attack “well before the incident.
