Michigan school shooting suspect made videos about killing students: lawyers
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The suspect, Ethan Crumbley, also had two meetings with teachers hours before the shootings to discuss some behavioural concerns.
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The teen suspect in a school shooting that left four high school students dead in Oxford, Mich., earlier this week had recorded cellphone video talking about killing students, officials said Wednesday.
Ethan Crumbley, 15, has been charged as an adult with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of terrorism causing death, among other charges.
After the shooting, investigators found two videos on Crumbley’s phone, which they said were made the night before the crimes occurred. In the videos the suspect talks about shooting and killing students at the high school, Oakland County Sheriff’s Lt. Tim Willis said.
Authorities also found a journal written by Crumbley, with entries that mentioned shooting and killing students, reports CNN.
He faces life in prison on both the terrorism and murder counts. Crumbley pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday.
Crumbley faces the terrorism charges as an adult because of changes made to Michigan’s state laws post-9/11.
The state’s 2002 anti-terrorism law defines a terroristic act as one intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to affect the conduct of a government through intimidation or coercion. Gun-control advocates who track gunfire incidents on school grounds were not immediately aware of similar terrorism charges having been filed in other states.