Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald issued a statement Tuesday evening saying her office expects to issue charges quickly and that an update would be given Wednesday.īouchard said the suspect had no prior run-ins with his department and he wasn't aware of any disciplinary history at school. Police must seek permission from a juvenile suspect's parents or guardian to speak with them, he added. McCabe said the suspect's parents visited their son where he's being held and advised him not to talk to investigators, as is his right. “I believe they literally saved lives having taken down the suspect with a loaded firearm while still in the building,” Bouchard said. He said the deputies arrested him after he emerged from a bathroom with the gun, which he said had seven rounds of ammunition still in it. The vandalism prompted school administrators to post two letters to parents on the school’s website earlier in November, saying they were responding to rumors of a threat against the school but had found none.Īuthorities didn't immediately release the shooting suspect's name, but Bouchard said deputies arrested him within minutes of arriving at the school in response to a flood of 911 calls about the attack, which happened shortly before 1 p.m. Undersheriff Mike McCabe downplayed the significance of an incident in early November when a deer head was thrown off the school roof, which he said was “absolutely unrelated” to the shooting. Bouchard stressed how crucial it is for tips of the kind to be sent to authorities, while also cautioning against spreading social media rumors about the attack before a full investigation. Bouchard said Myre died in a patrol car as a deputy tried to get him to a hospital.īouchard said authorities were made aware of allegations circulating on social media that there had been threats of a shooting at the roughly 1,700-student school, but he said they didn’t know about the rumors until after the attack. Juliana, and 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin. The three students who were killed were 16-year-old Tate Myre, 14-year-old Hana St. Bouchard said the suspect had practiced shooting with the gun and "posted pictures of the target and the weapon." The suspect's father had bought the 9 mm Sig Sauer used in the shooting on Friday, Bouchard said, adding that he did not know why the man bought the gun. “The person that’s got the most insight and the motive is not talking,” Bouchard said at a news conference. Dozens of police, fire, and EMS personnel work on the scene of a shooting at Oxford High School, Tuesday, Nov.
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