DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) The Sheriff of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department held a news conference today to discuss latest developments in the case involving a 15 year old student suspected in the shooting deaths of four students and significant or critical injuries to eight other people. Sheriff Michael Bouchard expressed frustration with a note of disbelief, noting several other threats to events and people associated with the tragedy.
Bouchard said another shooting threat involving a second school in the area was dealt with the following day after the deadly Oxford High School massacre, and an arrest was made. But Bouchard also detailed some of the others his deputies were dealing with, including “non stop” threats he said are, and have been “pouring in” against people at a memorial to the dead, and a vigil for those still battling for life. Bouchard said when deputies managed to stop the Oxford High School shooter they found 18 additional rounds that might have killed more. Bouchard says the constant stress without down time to process what the deputies saw in trying to stop the Oxford school shooting is making the job of keeping the community safe more taxing. Bouchard said he is stressing to his staff to focus on the 18 additional lives they likely saved by going in as quickly as they did.
15 year old Ethan Crumbley, the sophomore suspected shooter, is charged as an adult with first-degree murder and other charges. His parents, subject of a manhunt until they were located and “hiding” according to police, face involuntary manslaughter charges and a combined one million dollar bond, with provisions for GPS tracking should they make bail. Police say they believe the father of the suspect took the son to purchase the semi automatic weapon used in the school massacre; purchased as a Christmas gift for the son, they allege, and that school personnel who asked the parents to take the suspect home after allegedly finding frightening threats from Crumbley, were met with refusal on the same day of the shooting.
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