Ethan Crumbley, 15, shot dead 4 of his schoolmates at Oxford High School in Michigan: His parents will be charged with manslaughter

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On November 30, 2021, a gunman opened fire on students and staff at Oxford High School in the Detroit exurb of Oxford TownshipMichigan, United States, killing four students and injuring seven other people, including a teacher. The accused has been named as 15-year-old sophomore Ethan Crumbley, who is in custody and has been chargedas an adult. This attack is the deadliest school shooting in the United States since the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018.[4][5][6]

Surveillance footage reportedly showed Crumbley entering a bathroom with a backpack and then exiting it about a minute later without the backpack but with a semiautomatic handgun.[12] Immediately afterwards, prosecutors said Crumbley started firing at students; when they started fleeing, he “methodically and deliberately” walked down the hallway and aimed his gun into classrooms and at students who were unable to escape.[13][14]

According to students, a voice over the intercom alerted them to an active shooter, and their teachers started locking and barricading doors and covering windows, convincing them it was not a drill.[11] Others recounted hearing some loud banging noises, before realizing the noises were gunshots and quickly locking the door.[15] One student who hid in a bathroom stall recalled hearing the sound of a gun cocking outside the bathroom. Once the school was secured, he opened the bathroom door to find several bodies lying on the floor.[16][17]

At 12:51 p.m., police began receiving the first of around one hundred 9-1-1 calls about the shooting and responded to the school.[2] Crumbley was arrested unharmed by a deputy assigned as a school resource officer and a second deputy who responded to the scene.[18][19] He allegedly still had seven rounds of ammunition loaded into his gun and two 15-round magazines when he was stopped by authorities.[20][21][22] At a news conference, Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said the gunman gave up without any problems.[12][23][24][25]

The entire shooting lasted about five minutes and occurred in the southern end of the school building.[1][23]

After the shooting occurred, the school went into lockdown. Some students were evacuated to a nearby Meijer store, and one woman helped children to shelter in her house.[16][18] Authorities conducted three sweeps of the school in search of victims and evidence.[23] At least one student posted a video to social media of people hiding in a classroom during the lockdown, where an unidentified person out in the hallway claimed to be law enforcement. Those in the classroom mistakenly believed they were speaking to the gunman and they subsequently fled the classroom via the windows and were led to safety by a deputy.[20][26][27] Due to confusion from the video, Sheriff Bouchard clarified during a press conference that the gunman had never knocked on a door based on footage and that the person was likely to be a detective trying to calm down the students.[11]

Three students were killed at the scene, and eight other people were injured, including a teacher.[28] On December 1, one of the critically injured died, raising the death toll to four.[29] The dead were aged between 14 and 17.[30]

By the night of November 30, three of the injured were in critical condition,[a] with one of them on a ventilator; one was in serious condition; three were in stable condition; and the injured teacher was discharged after being treated for a graze wound to the shoulder.[11] By the night of December 1, three of the injured remained hospitalized in stable condition.[5][31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_High_School_shooting

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