An independent investigation has concluded that a threat assessment should have been conducted by school officials into Ethan Crumbley’s behavior prior to a shooting that left four students dead and others wounded at Oakland County’s Oxford High School.
A more than 500-page report released this week says Crumbley’s conduct included viewing bullets, watching violent video on his cellphone during class, and writing statements like “blood everywhere.”
Attorney Ven Johnson, who has represented families of those killed, says everyone needs to learn from the tragedy.
“The only way to take such a tragedy and make anything ever good out of it is to call it what it really was, hold the people and entities who were responsible responsible under the law, and then assess now that we know what we did wrong, let’s talk about what we can do right,” Johnson said.
The report spread blame throughout the Oxford Schools leadership.
Crumbley, now 17, pleaded guilty a year ago to first-degree murder and terrorism charges in the November 30, 2021, shooting.
