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An attorney representing several families whose children were injured or killed in the Nov. 30, 2021 shooting Oxford High School in MichiganThursday was argued that school staff had ignored warning signs of the shooter for months.
Ethan Crumbley was just 15 when he allegedly began to rob. Four students were shot and killedIn the days and months leading up to the shooting, he injured several others at the school, took disturbing photos, wrote assignment answers that were concerning teachers, and viewed images and videos of bullets on his smartphone.
“Today, the teacher is looking at videos on his smartphone of a gunman shooting down people. It looks like a movie sequence and not security footage/a true event. However, it is definitely concerning when you consider some of his other behavior,” Shawn Hopkins, a teacher, wrote to Shawn Hopkins in an email. Shawn Hopkins was named in Ven Johnson’s lawsuit against Oxford school staff.
Nicholas Ejak, Dean for Students, and Hopkins met with Crumbley, his parents and four other charges of involuntary killing in order to discuss the graphic drawings he made just hours before the fatal rampage. During the meeting, the suspect convinced them that the worrying drawings were meant for a “videogame”.
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Ethan Crumbley was charged with the shooting deaths of four students and seven other victims, including a teacher at Oxford High School Nov. 30, 1999.
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His parents “flatly refused to” take their son home. Prosecutor for Oakland CountyKaren McDonald stated this in December 2021.
Crumbley “knew that he would be questioned, so he doctored the drawing and wrote, ‘Video game this is,’ ‘I love my life so much!!!!,’ ‘OHS rocks!,’ ‘We are all friends here,’ and ‘Harmless act,’” Johnson’s lawsuit alleges.
Teachers had raised warning signs for months before the shooting but they were largely ignored by school staff.
“What we now understand is this. From, literally, the beginning of school, Ethan Crumbley was evidencing signs of being a highly troubled individual, to say the least,” Johnson said during a press conference Thursday, citing various depositions Oxford High School teachersCounselors.
After Ethan Crumbley was caught drawing disturbing images in class, a teacher alerted James and Jennifer Crumbley and they met with them.
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Crumbley created an image of himself in late August 2021 next to what Johnson suggests may have been a drawing of a gun that Johnson received from his teacher. Johnson said that Johnson was the teacher who testified that she hadn’t seen the drawing until months after it was made. The teacher also caught Johnson watching violent videos the day before the shooting, and alerted school staff.
Crumbley stated on another assignment the same month that “Resistance to Hitler and Making Bombs For Hitler” was his favorite book.
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Crumbley was the subject a Hopkins email in September 2021 from his Spanish teacher.
“Could your please contact Ethan Crumbley?” She wrote. He wrote, “In his autobiography poem he stated that he felt terrible and that his family was a mistake.” It’s not common to get such bizarre responses.
Ethan Robert Crumbley (15 years old) and his parents are seen in prison booking photos.
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Hopkins said that he never spoke to Crumbley afterwards, but Johnson claimed Thursday that the counselor told Johnson that Johnson had spoken with the 15-year old.
Two months later, on Nov. 10, 2021 — 20 days before the shooting — the Spanish teacher again sent Hopkins an email saying Crumbley is “having a rough time right now.” Johnson claims that Hopkins finally pulled Crumbley from his classroom and invited him. to visit a counselor’s officesTo which the 15-yearold replied, “OK.”
Crumbley’s teacher also took photographs of his drawings on the morning of shooting, and brought them to the front office of the high school to be shown to staff.
Johnson said that another classmate also told the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department on Nov. 25 that Crumbley told him “If I ever tell You not to go school sometime, don’t.” Johnson added. Crumbley then allegedly showed his classmate the gun and demanded that he be acquitted. His Instagram account includes the target keyword.
November 30, 2021 saw seven students injured and four killed by Ethan Crumbley, a student at Oxford High School.
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Johnson claims that the civil defendants assumed that other defendants were looking after teachers’ concerns.
“Everybody assumes everybody else is doing some thing, but no one is doing anything,” said the attorney.
Buck Myre was the father of Tate Myre is 16 years oldHe was shot and killed by the gunman and condemned the school for not being accountable for its actions before and after Nov. 30, 20,21. He stated that it was unclear if there was a process for teachers to express concerns to school staff.
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“If you take a look at these emails sent out by teachers, there is no consistency as to who they are going. Myre stated Thursday that this shows me that there is no process to attack such a situation. “It is obvious that Oxford Community Schools has withheld information. They are aware that they have failed. … Meanwhile, here we are buying memorial shirts for our murdered kid. What is Oxford Community Schools doing here? Nothing. … They’re hiding behind governmental immunity.”
Johnson has brought civil actions on behalf students and families that were affected by the shooting. Johnson accuses Crumbley, Jennifer Crumbley and her parents James Crumbley of negligence. Recently, a judge ordered the release all materials including surveillance footageFrom the shooting, in Johnson’s case.
The victims of the November 2021 shooting that left four dead were Myre (16-years-old Justin Shilling), Hana ST. Juliana (14) and Madisyn (17).
