USA: Young man pleads guilty to killing 4 classmates at a high school

Teenager Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty Monday to all charges brought against him for the shooting he committed a year ago at the high school in the town of Oxford (Michigan, USA), where four students lost their lives.

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Crumbleywho is now 16 years old, pleaded guilty to the 24 crimes charged against him, which include from terrorism to first-degree murder, the latter charge that could carry a life sentence, according to local media such as The Detroit News.

That medium describes the attitude shown by the accused during the admission of guilt as stoic and details that the young man had his left hand handcuffed to a chain around his waist.

During the hearing, Oakland County Judge Kwame Rowe asked the defendant if he pleaded guilty to the crimes with which he was charged, reading each offense separately, to which Crumbley He answered “yes” each time.

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In that way, Crumbley admitted that his intention was to end the lives of several of his high school classmates when on November 30, 2021 he entered the school with a gun, went to the bathrooms and began shooting those who were nearby.

Four students were killed, six others were injured, and a teacher was also injured.

The crime shocked USA and sparked a debate about parental responsibility in school shootings, which have increased in recent years.

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In a separate proceeding, the parents of Crumbley They face charges of involuntary manslaughter because the semi-automatic weapon used to commit the crime belonged to the father and because they ignored the teachers’ warnings about the need for the young man to receive psychological attention.

hours before Crumbley fired at the other students, a teacher found a note on the young man’s desk showing a gun and the phrase: “Thoughts don’t stop, help me.”

The note also contained a drawing of a bullet with the words “blood everywhere,” investigators revealed during court proceedings.

Despite these warnings, the young man’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, refused the teachers’ requests to take home their son, who committed the shooting a few hours later.

At the time the charges against him were announced, the young man’s parents fled and were unaccounted for for several hours, sparking a police search that was broadcast on major US television until they were located in a Detroit warehouse.

In recent years, they have increased USA the shootings in educational centers with incidents as shocking as the one at the Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 with 26 fatalities or the one at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, with the murder of 19 children and two teachers.

In 2021 alone, when the Michigan school shooting took place, there were 202 incidents involving firearms in school zones, leaving 49 dead and 126 injured, according to gun control group Every Town For Gun Safety. .

Source: Elcomercio

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