Michigan cops executed search warrant against Michigan high school shooter’s home and removed ‘armfuls of weapons’

Ethan Crumbley, a sophomore student, is in custody after deputies said they found him walking down the hallway with a loaded 9 mm Sig Sauer SP2022 pistol

Crumbley, 15, has been charged as an adult

Crumbley is charged 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.

Killed in Tuesday’s school shooting were Tate Myre, 16, Hana St Juliana, 14, and 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin

School shooter opened fire on people at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit around 12:50pm Tuesday

Eight people were injured, including a 47-year old teacher

One of the injured students, Justin Shilling, 17, died Wednesday

Among the surviving student victims, three are listed in critical condition – a girl, 17, shot in the chest, a boy, 15, shot in the head and a 14-year-old girl shot in her chest and neck who is on a ventilator after surgery

A 14-year-old boy is in serious condition with gunshot wounds to his jaw and head

Two students are listed in stable condition – a 17-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her neck and a 15-year-old boy shot in his left leg

Ethan Crumbley, 15, a sophomore student, is in custody after deputies said they found him walking down the hallway with a loaded 9 mm Sig Sauer SP2022 pistol

That gun was purchased by the shooter’s father on Nov. 26, according to authorities

Crumbley’s parents have told him not to talk to police and have hired an attorney, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said

Authorities serving a search warrant at the suspected shooter’s house, seized a phone and cache of weapons

Chilling video footage shows students hiding in a barricaded classroom as the gunman tries to coax them out The teen shooter is heard saying ‘Sheriff’s office

Remains unclear if suspect will be charged as an adult or a juvenile, but he’s being held on suicide watch at Oakland County Children’s Village

Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley, 15, has been charged as an adult
Crumbley is charged 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.
The Michigan high school shooter, who killed four classmates and injured seven others yesterday at Oxford High School so far is refusing to speak to police at the juvenile detention center where he is being held. A fourth teen among the injured Wednesday raising the body count by one.
The 15-year-old suspect Ethan Crumbley, a sophomore student, is in custody after deputies said they found him walking down the hallway with a loaded 9 mm Sig Sauer SP2022 pistol.  That gun was purchased by the boy’s father on Nov. 26, according to authorities.

The suspect who will now be tried as an adult or a juvenile but he is being held at Oakland County Children’s Village, where he is on suicide watch and being checked on every 15 minutes.  
“Charging this person as an adult is necessary to achieve justice and protect the public,” Prosecutor Karen McDonald said. “Any other option would put all of us at risk of this person because they could be released and still a threat.” McDonald said there is evidence that show this shooting was “not just an impulsive act.”
“I am absolutely sure, after reviewing the evidence, that it isn’t even a close call — it was absolutely premeditated,” she said.
“There is a mountain of digital evidence: video tape, social media — all digital evidence possible, and we have reviewed it. Absolutely, we are confident that we can show it was premeditation.”
She said there’s evidence that planning happened “well before the incident.”
“Today is only the beginning,” McDonald said. “It’s possible there could be additional charges issued very soon when that investigation is reviewed and complete.”
Crumbley is accused of opening fire at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, on Tuesday afternoon, shooting dead Hana St. Juliana, 14, Tate Myre, 16, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17.
Justin Shilling, 17 who was listed among the eight others injured in the attack died on Wednesday.
Shilling was one of eight people taken to the hospital with gunshot injuries after the shooting. One of those victims was a 47-year-old teacher, and the others were all students.
Six other students and a teacher were shot and were treated at area hospitals. The teacher, Bouchard said, “has been thankfully discharged. She had a left shoulder gunshot wound that appears to have been a grazing wound.”

Terrifying moment shooter tries to lure students out of classroom

Among the surviving student victims three are listed as in being in critical condition a a 14-year-old girl is hospitalized with gunshot wounds to her chest and neck who is on a ventilator after surgery, a 17-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her chest and a 15-year-old male student with a gunshot wound to his head
A 14-year-old boy is in serious condition with gunshot wounds to his jaw and head.
Two students are listed in stable condition – a 17-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her neck and a 15-year-old boy shot in his left leg.
The shooter carried out the attack with his father’s 9mm Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun. 
Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the suspect was arrested at the scene roughly 45 minutes northwest of Detroit.
“He came out with the intent to kill people. He was shooting people at close range, oftentimes toward the head or chest,” Sheriff Bouchard said on CNN early Wednesday. 
“It’s chilling. It’s just absolutely cold-hearted murderous.”
The father bought the weapon just four days ago and the shooter posted pictures of it on social media before Tuesday’s attack.     
‘He had been shooting with it and posted pictures of a target and the weapon. That’s all part of what’s being looked at. We’re going to do a deep dive on the social media and all the activities of this young man,’ Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said during a Tuesday night press conference.   

Recorded on a cell phone and widely shared on social media, the video shows the students racing to safety, going back inside the school through a different door, where a sheriff’s deputy tells them: “Slow down. You’re fine.”

On Tuesday night, police were seen at the shooter’s family home removing what liked multiple, long-barreled guns.    
Now, the teenage boy is refusing to speak with the authorities at the Oakland Juvenile Center and his parents have hired an attorney to represent him.   
The teen’s motive remains unclear but some students at the school said he was being bullied.   
‘I’ve seen him around the school. He’s a kid, he’s been picked on and stuff like this and when a kid has been picked on, people bullying him, you’re going to get this. You’re going to get this reaction,’ Treshan Bryant told ABC 7 outside the school.  

Investigators seize cache of weapons from suspected Oxford school shooter’s home

Deputies rushed to the school around 12:50 p.m. as more than 100 calls flooded 911 dispatchers with reports of a shooter. They arrested the gunman, 15, in a hallway within minutes of their arrival with the help of an on-scene school resource officer. The sophomore student put his hands in the air as deputies approached, police said. 
Cops recovered a 9mm Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun, purchased by the gunman’s father on Friday. They later said the suspect had fired at least 12 rounds and had seven more rounds of ammunition when he surrendered. It is not yet clear where in the school the shooter started his rampage. 

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Police said it was also not yet clear what the shooter’s motive was but that they were searching his social media accounts for clues after finding pictures of him shooting the handgun at a target. 
Authorities were made aware of posts on social media that said there had been threats of a shooting at the roughly 1,700-student school, but Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said they did not know about the rumors until after the attack. 
Another eight people were injured – seven students and one teacher, a 47-year-old woman who was treated and discharged, according to the sheriff’s office.
All seven wounded students remain hospitalized, some with life-threatening injuries. Police late Tuesday said four were in a critical condition including a 14-year-old girl who was fighting for her life on a ventilator following surgery for chest and neck wounds at Hurley Medical Center in Flint.  

It comes as chilling footage emerged Tuesday of the suspect, a sophomore at the school whom police said was refusing to cooperate, trying to convince would-be victims that it was safe to emerge from hiding.
Students exchange glances as one whispers ‘he said it’s safe to come out.’ 
‘Sheriff’s office,’ the boy says. ‘You can come out.’ Oxford High student says 15-year-old school shooter was ‘bullied’
But the teacher responds: ‘We’re not taking that risk. The gunman shouts back something inaudible before calling his classmate ‘bro’ and in that sickening moment, classmates began jumping out a window, realizing the self-professed cop was actually the shooter. 
A senior at the school, Aiden Page, said his teacher locked the classroom, barricaded the door, covered the windows and instructed the students to hide after hearing two gunshots ring through the school. 
‘We grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case the shooter got in and we had to attack them,’ Page told CNN, adding that one bullet had pierced a desk used to barricade the door. It was not clear if Page was in the classroom shown in the video.  

The campus was placed on lockdown during the attack, with some children sheltering in locked classrooms. They were later taken to a nearby Meijer grocery store to be picked up by their parents. The district said in a statement that all of its schools would be closed for the rest of the week.
Bouchard said late Tuesday that investigators were still trying to determine a motive. The suspect has not been named because of his age, but could be identified if he is charged as an adult over the killings.   
‘The person that’s got the most insight and the motive is not talking,’ Bouchard said at a news conference Tuesday evening.
Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said the suspect, who is being housed in Oakland County juvenile center under suicide watch, had demanded his right to a lawyer after being advised not to speak to investigators by his parents. 

Tributes poured in for the three slain teens, along with prayers for them, the wounded and all of their families. 
Members of the football community shared their praise for Tate, a junior listed at six feet and 195 pounds whose plays drew attention from college recruiters. 
‘I covered #42 for his game this season VS Chippewa Valley, which he was a stud,’ wrote sports videographer Elijah Tiernan on Twitter. ‘Prayers out to the Oxford community during these tough times.’ 
A petition calling for the school’s football stadium to be renamed after the standout varsity running back and middle linebacker has already garnered more than 32,000 signatures.   
In a heartbreaking Facebook post before her family learned that she had not survived, Madisyn’s grandmother pleaded for any information about the high school senior, who was scheduled to be in a psychology class when the shooting occurred.   

Jennifer Graves Mosqueda wrote: ‘My granddaughter Madisyn Baldwin can not be located at all!!! Madisyn is 17 and a senior in this at Oxford High School.   
‘Our family are out on foot trying to find her and bring her home safe. She is not answering her cell phone, or text messages.   
‘She was not in her psychology class during the shootings. WHERE SHE WAS SCHEDULED TO BE. No contact with her mother, father, stepmother, grandparents, aunts, friends, or her boyfriend!’  
She went on to implore people for information and asked parents to ask their children if they had seen Madisyn.  
‘I never imagined the horror we witnessed today,’ wrote Oxford Police Chief Michael Solwold in a Facebook post.   
‘I saw the fear and tears in our kids faces as they were escorted out by us to safety. Although our kids were in fear I heard many as they were running out with their hands up say, thank you. It took everything in my being to keep it together to go back down the hallways to help clear classrooms.’   
‘There is not enough training in the world to prepare you for your emotions when it involves your children. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and their families, the school staff and the first responders,’ he added.

 At a vigil last night at LakePoint Community Church, Leeann Dersa choked back tears as she hugged friends and neighbors. Dersa has lived nearly all of her 73 years in Oxford. Her grandchildren attended the high school.  
‘Scared us all something terrible. It’s awful,’ Dersa said of the shooting.  
Pastor Jesse Holt said news of the shooting flooded in to him and his wife, including texts from some of the 20 to 25 students who are among the 400-member congregation.  
‘Some were very scared, hiding under their desks and texting us, `We’re safe, we’re OK. We heard gunshots, but we’re OK.’ They were trying to calm us, at least that’s how it felt,’ he said.   
Police late yesterday confirmed the ages and injuries sustained by the eight wounded victims.    
Four students were in a critical condition. Among them, a 15-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head and a 14-year-old boy with gunshot wounds to the jaw and hand. Both were being treated at McLaren Hospital.    
Two girls – aged 14 and 17 – were in critical condition being treated at Hurley Medical Center in Flint and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac.  
The 14-year-old was on a ventilator following surgery, police said.   
Three students, two boys aged 15 and 17 and a girl aged 17, were listed as ‘expected to survive’ after being shot in the leg, hip and neck respectively.  
A 47-year-old teacher was discharged from McLaren Lapeer after being shot in the shoulder.

The teen shooter who killed three in a rampage at a school in Michigan yesterday was using a 9mm Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun.  Responding officers recovered the handgun from the suspect who was arrested after he put his hands up and surrendered to deputies as they arrived at the school just before 1pm yesterday. 
The suspect had fired at least 12 rounds before he was arrested and another seven rounds of ammunition were found when he surrendered.
The firearm was bought by his father on Friday, police said, adding it was not clear why he had purchased the gun.  Pictures posted online showed the suspect shooting the gun at a target, police said.  
Deputies arrested him within minutes of arriving at the school in response to a flood of 911 calls about the attack.
The officers also recovered a semi-automatic handgun and several magazines used to store ammunition that the suspect used in the attack, authorities said.
‘He fired multiple shots,’ Undersheriff McCabe said. ‘Somewhere in the area of 15 to 20.’

McCabe said the suspect’s parents visited their son where he’s being held and advised him not to talk to investigators, as is his right. Police must seek permission from a juvenile suspect’s parents or guardian to speak with them, he added. Police said the gunman’s father had purchased the gun but that it was not clear why. He the teen shooter posted pictures of him practicing shooting at a target. 
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald issued a statement yesterday evening saying her office expects to issue charges quickly and that an update would be given Wednesday.  
McDonald promised swift justice, saying in a statement: ‘It is our intent to review it [the investigation] thoroughly and issue appropriate charges quickly. The suspect will remain in custody pending those charges.’ 
McCabe said he wasn’t aware of any prior run-ins the suspect had with law enforcement or if he had any disciplinary history at school.   

Masses of stunned students, some crying and others huddled together, emerged from the school following the massacre. 
‘It’s a very tragic situation, obviously,’ Undersheriff Mike McCabe said during a press conference. ‘You never want to prepare for something like this, but you have to, and the school district has done a wonderful job preparing.’ 
Oxford Community Schools superintendent Tim Throne had little to add at the scene, saying he wasn’t sure which students were shot and which one pulled the trigger. 
‘You certainly can pray for our families here in Oxford and our students,’ he said. ‘I’m learning information in real time just as you are.
‘Of course, I’m shocked.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer also condemned the tragedy, saying the killings were ‘every parent’s worst nightmare.’
‘Gun violence is a public health crisis that claims lives every day. We have the tools to reduce gun violence in Michigan.’ 
Whitmer added that: ‘no one should be afraid to go to school, work, a house of worship, or even their own home. 
‘This is a time for us to come together and help children feel safe at school.’ 

A concerned parent said her son, a 12th grader at the school but stayed home Tuesday after he heard threats that there could be a shooting.
‘This couldn’t be just random,’ she said.
The student himself said he texted several younger cousins in the morning and they said they didn’t want to go to school, and he got a bad feeling. He asked his mom if he could do his assignments online.
He had heard vague threats ‘for a long time now’ about plans for a shooting. 
School administrators posted two letters to parents on the school’s website this month, saying they were responding to rumors of a threat against the school following a bizarre vandalism incident.

According to a November 4 letter written by Principal Steve Wolf, someone threw a deer head into a courtyard from the school’s roof, painted several windows on the roof with red acrylic paint and used the same paint on concrete near the school building.
Without specifically referencing that incident, a second post on November 12 assured ‘there has been no threat to our building nor our students.’
‘We are aware of the numerous rumors that have been circulating throughout our building this week. We understand that has created some concern for students and parents,’ the administrators wrote.
‘Please know that we have reviewed every concern shared with us and investigated all information provided. Some rumors have evolved from an incident last week, while others do not appear to have any connection. Student interpretations of social media posts and false information have exacerbated the overall concern.’ 

Undersheriff McCabe said that authorities were aware of allegations circulating on social media that there had been threats of a shooting at the roughly 1,700-student school before Tuesday’s attack, but he cautioned against believing that narrative until investigators can look into it. 
Both authorities emphasized that yesterday’s shooting was unrelated to the deer head or any earlier investigation by their office: ‘That was a different incident, different student,’ McCabe said.
The shooting happened in Oxford, a town of about 22,000 people about 30 miles north of Detroit.