The Detroit Free Press reports:
Ethan Crumbley, who 11 months ago penned in his journal “I will cause the biggest school shooting in Michigan’s history. I have fully mentally lost it,” pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder and terrorism charges for the bloodshed he vowed to carry out at Oxford High School four days after his parents bought him a gun.
In a packed courtroom filled with the victims’ grieving families, Crumbley, 16, took responsibility for the murders of his classmates, Tate Myre, 16, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, Hana St. Juliana, 14, and Justin Shilling, 17, and the injuries he caused to seven others who were struck by his bullets.
In entering his guilty plea, Ethan dropped a bombshell that may hurt his parents in their separate criminal case, telling the judge that the gun he used in the shooting was easily accessible. “It was not locked,” Ethan said in court, contradicting his parents’ claims that the gun was properly stored in a secure area.
Read the full article. Crumbley’s parents, you will recall, let authorities on a manhunt after the shooting.
Ethan Crumbley admits guilt to murder in Oxford High School shooting https://t.co/Y6jO14n7hg
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) October 24, 2022
A Michigan teen pleads guilty to murder charges in high school shooting that also led to charges against his parentshttps://t.co/4WZcijAb9c
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