Investigators release new details about 15-year-old Michigan shooting suspect

OXFORD, Mich. — Ethan Crumbley faced a justice Wednesday, conscionable 1 time aft helium was accused of gunning down his classmates astatine Oxford High School.

As detectives hunt for clues astir what led up to the shooting, the Oakland County Sheriff confirms what the 7 Investigators person been learning from respective sources: that Oxford High School officials met with the teen and his parents astir concerning behaviour conscionable hours earlier the shooting.

“We had nary accusation from the schools. But we person since learned that the schools did person interaction with the pupil the time earlier and the time of the shooting for behaviour successful the schoolroom that they felt was concerning. The parents were brought successful the greeting of the shooting and had a face-to-face with the school,” said Sheriff Michael Bouchard.

Bouchard would not uncover the topics discussed during that meeting, lone that his liaison serviceman successful the schoolhouse was not told astir it. Bouchard besides confirmed the schoolhouse allowed Crumbley to enactment successful the gathering aft that 10:00 a.m. gathering Tuesday, and astir 12:50 p.m., the shooting started.

Bouchard said the “content of that gathering evidently is portion of the investigation.”

The sheriff antecedently acknowledged that a handgun shown connected a societal media relationship believed to beryllium to the fishy is the aforesaid benignant of limb utilized successful the murders.

But instrumentality enforcement officials are besides telling the 7 Investigators that the 15-year-old has nary erstwhile schoolhouse subject issues and nary anterior transgression record.

While a motive is not yet clear, sheriff’s investigators are pouring implicit documents, notebooks and searching the suspect’s telephone for clues.

“Items we person seized- documents, papers, phones, evidentiary worth items to look to spot thing that would pb to our knowing of what motivated him. But I volition accidental it again – determination is NOTHING that helium could person faced that would warrant senseless perfectly brutal unit connected different kids,” said Bouchard.

Heather Catallo astatine WXYZ archetypal reported this story.