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After the death of one of the injured was added this Wednesday, Magistrate Karen McDonald decided to file four charges for murder and another for terrorism against the 15-year-old boy who opened fire at a school north of Detroit. The gun belonged to the father, who had bought it just four days ago. A teacher and six other students were injured, but they are stable.
The controversy over the carrying of firearms returned to the table in the United States hours after a young man, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, entered his school and fired at those present. As a result, four students were killed and half a dozen students were injured, in addition to a teacher.
Three of the victims died on Tuesday, the day the event occurred, while a fourth young man died on Wednesday. Against this background, the Michigan prosecutor, Karen McDonald, raised four counts of first degree murder and one for terrorism against the suspect, who carried out the most serious attack this year in a school establishment in the United States.
“I’m absolutely sure, after reviewing the evidence, that it was premeditated,” McDonald said. In addition, the young attacker will also face seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The magistrate confirmed that Crumbley will be charged as an adult despite being a minor and that new charges could arise very soon that would complicate his situation.
On the first day of December, investigators continued to search for evidence and testimonies to elucidate the motives and the path taken by the second-year high school youth before unleashing the shooting with a semiautomatic 9-millimeter pistol.
In this data collection, they confirmed that the weapon belonged to the author’s father, who had bought it four days ago. In addition, they found images on social networks of the boy posing with the revolver and a target he had used.
The shooting at Oxford High School lasted around five minutes thanks to the swift assistance of the police. Oakland County Sheriff Michel Bouchard, at a press conference, said they lack an explanation of what precipitated such an act of violence, which he called “indescribable and unforgivable.”
“The person who has more information about the motive is not speaking,” said the bailiff in relation to the suspect, who surrendered to the police intervention and was detained unarmed and with his hands behind his neck, dismissing the rumor of a confrontation with the police. agents. “The only information I have is that he came out of a bathroom with a gun and I don’t know where he went first,” Bouchard said.
The defendant’s attorney and parents denied authorities permission to interview their son, who was being held in a special cell under surveillance at a juvenile detention center, Oakland County Executive David Coulter said.
The students who died as a result of the shooting were Tate Myre (16 years old), Hanna St. Julian (14), Madisyn Baldwin (17), who were joined on Wednesday by Justin Shilling (17).
Of the injured, three remain hospitalized, including a 17-year-old girl who is in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the chest. The other four were discharged.
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