PONTIAC, Mich.\u2014A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six \u2026<\/b>
\nPONTIAC, Mich.\u2014A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded, the Michigan district\u2019s superintendent said, with the Michigan attorney general responding Sunday that her office could conduct it. Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne said in a statement that he called for the outside investigation because parents have asked questions about \u201cthe school\u2019s version of events leading up to the shooting.\u201d He also elaborated on interactions with the student leading up to the shooting. \u201cIt\u2019s critically important to the victims, our staff and our entire community that a full and transparent accounting be made,\u201d Throne said. His comments came after a news conference Friday by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald that detailed numerous warning signs from the student charged in the shooting: His search for gun ammunition on a cellphone, and a drawing that showed a bullet with the words \u201cblood everywhere\u201d above a person who appears to have been shot along with \u201cmy life is useless\u201d and \u201cthe world is dead.\u201d \u201cOf course he shouldn\u2019t have gone back to that classroom.\u2026 I believe that is a universal position. I\u2019m not going to chastise or attack, but yeah,\u201d McDonald said. Asked if school officials may potentially be charged, she said: \u201cThe investigation\u2019s ongoing.\u201d On Tuesday at the school, roughly 30 miles north of Detroit, the student was sent back to the classroom after a school meeting with his parents. Three hours later the shooting occurred. \u201cThe school should have been responsible to relay that to the sheriff\u2019s office. It looks like this could have been prevented,\u201d Robert Jordan, founder and director of St. Louis-based Protecting Our Students, said Friday. \u201cPeople died because of those mistakes.\u201d In addition to Jordan, parents of students slain in a 2018 school shooting in Florida say police should have been alerted before Tuesday\u2019s rampage. The suspect in the Oxford High shooting, Ethan Crumbley,15, is now charged as an adult with murder, terrorism and other crimes. On Friday, prosecutors charged his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter. They pleaded not guilty on Saturday and a judge imposed a combined $1 million bond. On Twitter Sunday, Attorney General Dana Nessel said her office has reached out to the school to investigate the shooting and events leading up to it, saying, \u201cOur attorneys and special agents are uniquely qualified to perform an investigation of this magnitude.\u201d The 9mm semi-automatic pistol used in the shooting was bought at a local gun shop on Black Friday by James Crumbley as an early Christmas present for his son, authorities said. School officials became concerned about the younger Crumbley on Monday, a day before the shooting, when a teacher saw him searching for ammunition on his phone, McDonald told reporters. On Tuesday, a teacher found a note on Ethan\u2019s desk and took a photo. It was a drawing of a gun pointing at the words, \u201cThe thoughts won\u2019t stop. Help me,\u201d McDonald said. There also was a drawing of a bullet, she said, with words above it: \u201cBlood everywhere.\u201d Between the gun and the bullet was a person who appeared to have been shot twice and is bleeding, she said. \u201cMy life is useless\u201d and \u201cThe world is dead\u201d also were written. Ethan Crumbley and both his parents met with school officials at 10 a.m. Tuesday. His parents left, and Ethan went back to his classes with his backpack, where investigators believe he stashed the gun. Authorities were not notified, something that county Sheriff Michael Bouchard said he wishes would have been done. By 1 p.m. Tuesday, the school erupted in gunshots, chaos, and bloodshed. \u201cThe school had the responsibility to be doing an immediate threat assessment on the student and bringing into that conversation the sworn police officer and law enforcement,\u201d said Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was one of 17 students slain in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. About five weeks before the Stoneman Douglas shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying former student Nikolas Cruz had bought guns and planned to \u201cslip into a school and start shooting the place up.\u201d That information was never forwarded to the FBI. Cruz, who had been expelled from the school a year earlier and had a long history of emotional and behavioral problems, never was contacted. Now 23, Cruz pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder. \u201cWe have to take these threats seriously,\u201d Alhadeff said. But looking at such an issue after the fact raises other questions, said Christopher Smith, professor of Law and Public Policy at Michigan State University and chair of the Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. You have to consider whether the \u201cteacher and school officials specifically have in their training that you need to report all these things,\u201d Smith said. In a video message to the community Thursday night, Throne acknowledged the meeting of Crumbley, the parents and school officials. Throne offered no details but said that \u201cno discipline was warranted.\u201d In his statement Saturday, Throne elaborated on the events of Tuesday morning, saying the student was taken to the guidance counselor\u2019s office where he claimed the drawing was part of a video game he was designing and that he planned to pursue video game design as a career. He worked on homework while waiting for his parents as counselors watched him. \u201cAt no time did counselors believe the student might harm others based on his behavior, responses, and demeanor, which appeared calm,\u201d Throne said. \u201cWhile both of his parents were present, counselors asked specific probing questions regarding the potential for self-harm or harm to others,\u201d Throne said, adding counseling was recommended for him, and his parents were notified that they had 48 hours to seek it. \u201cWhen the parents were asked to take their son home for the day, they flatly refused and left without their son, apparently to return to work.\u201d He said that the student had no prior disciplinary infractions so he was allowed to return to the classroom instead of being \u201csent home to an empty house.\u201d<\/p>\n