Teacher alarmed by Oxford High suspect's drawings ahead of shooting, warned school leadersJennifer Chambers
The Detroit News
Dec. 3, 2021
A teacher at Oxford High School was so disturbed by what she saw on Ethan Crumbley's desk the day the teen is accused of going on a killing spree in school, she took out her cell phone and snapped a photo as evidence to show school leaders.
According to authorities, on a piece of paper in front of Crumbley, the teacher saw the words: "the thoughts won't stop, help me" and a drawing of a bullet and the phrase: "blood everywhere."
There was a sketch of a person shot twice and bleeding, a laughing emoji and the final lines: “my life is useless” and “the world is dead.”
Details of what happened at Oxford High School the day of the mass shooting in which four students were killed and seven others injured, including a teacher, were revealed on Friday by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald who announced involuntary manslaughter charges against Crumbley's parents. ...
... Oxford school officials showed the parents the drawings and said they were required to get their son into counseling in the next 48 hours. They asked the parents to remove Ethan from the school that day.
But they left the school without him, and Ethan was returned to class, prosecutors allege, with a semi-automatic gun in his backpack where he would soon allegedly begin his rampage across the school, gunning down classmates and teachers and leaving a trail of blood, empty casing, shattered windows and bullet-ridden doors in his path. ...
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