Another School Shooter: “Blood everywhere. The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.”
15-year-old sophomore Ethan Crumbley’s teacher confiscated one of Ethan’s drawings: a gun, a person suffering gunshot wounds, and a laughing emoji. “Blood everywhere,” Ethan had scrawled across the drawing. “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.” The teacher did their job and reported it. It went further than anyone thought it would, but in the wrong direction and far too late.
Days later, Ethan Crumbley walked into Detroit’s Oxford high school to unleash hell: At least 30 shots from a Sig Sauer 9mm, an early Christmas gift from his parents. Eleven people suffered gunshots. Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17, will never walk the school halls again. The 29th school shooting in 2021, the 21st since August 1, was etched in history.
What makes this school shooting most historical is the arrest and charge against Ethan’s parents Jennifer and James; they were charged on December 3 with involuntary manslaughter for failing to secure the Sig Sauer 9mm. “It’s just not enough to charge this shooter,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told the public. Jennifer and James failed to appear for the arraignment, attempted to flee, and became the subjects of a search by the U.S. Marshals. They would be caught and arrested in Detroit on December 4. The Crumbley parents became headlines.
Ethan Crumbley mug shot. Picture: Oakland Co. S. O.
Ethan Crumbley revealed leakage in his artwork, journal, and video, where he drew pictures of people, shot and “details his ‘desire to shoot up the school to include murdering students,’” according to authorities; there were “two videos on Crumbley’s phone that were recorded … about shooting and killing students at the high school….” School officials held meetings with the parents regarding some of the artwork. Only so many hours later, the boy was making a different kind of video where school cameras recorded him casually walking down the halls of Oxford, pointing the 9mm into classes and squeezing off rounds.
“It was absolutely premeditated,” Karen D. McDonald has announced. Ethan Crumbley is charged as an adult with one count of terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. He is looking at a life sentence if convicted.
All we know about this case is what the “officials” – and the media – are telling. This includes information about Jennifer, James, and Ethan Crumbley. From what we have been told, we see Ethan’s case was ignored or passed over by school authorities and parents to the point where lives could have been spared. The result is that four children are buried, a family loses their parents, and a boy will become an old man in prison. Guilt will forever ride the shoulders of so many. Everyone finds someone to blame to ease their pain. No one wins.
What is most important about this school shooting? What seems most revealing, what we should all concentrate on, are the two words revealed in Ethan’s artwork: “Help me.”
Days later, Ethan Crumbley walked into Detroit’s Oxford high school to unleash hell: At least 30 shots from a Sig Sauer 9mm, an early Christmas gift from his parents. Eleven people suffered gunshots. Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17, will never walk the school halls again. The 29th school shooting in 2021, the 21st since August 1, was etched in history.
What makes this school shooting most historical is the arrest and charge against Ethan’s parents Jennifer and James; they were charged on December 3 with involuntary manslaughter for failing to secure the Sig Sauer 9mm. “It’s just not enough to charge this shooter,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told the public. Jennifer and James failed to appear for the arraignment, attempted to flee, and became the subjects of a search by the U.S. Marshals. They would be caught and arrested in Detroit on December 4. The Crumbley parents became headlines.
Ethan Crumbley mug shot. Picture: Oakland Co. S. O.Ethan Crumbley revealed leakage in his artwork, journal, and video, where he drew pictures of people, shot and “details his ‘desire to shoot up the school to include murdering students,’” according to authorities; there were “two videos on Crumbley’s phone that were recorded … about shooting and killing students at the high school….” School officials held meetings with the parents regarding some of the artwork. Only so many hours later, the boy was making a different kind of video where school cameras recorded him casually walking down the halls of Oxford, pointing the 9mm into classes and squeezing off rounds.
“It was absolutely premeditated,” Karen D. McDonald has announced. Ethan Crumbley is charged as an adult with one count of terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. He is looking at a life sentence if convicted.
All we know about this case is what the “officials” – and the media – are telling. This includes information about Jennifer, James, and Ethan Crumbley. From what we have been told, we see Ethan’s case was ignored or passed over by school authorities and parents to the point where lives could have been spared. The result is that four children are buried, a family loses their parents, and a boy will become an old man in prison. Guilt will forever ride the shoulders of so many. Everyone finds someone to blame to ease their pain. No one wins.
What is most important about this school shooting? What seems most revealing, what we should all concentrate on, are the two words revealed in Ethan’s artwork: “Help me.”
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