Michigan shooting: Teenager pleads guilty to murder charges

Ethan Crumbley, a Michigan teenager, has pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism charges in a 2021 mass shooting.

Crumbley, 16, is accused of opening fire at Oxford High School outside Detroit on November 30 with a semi-automatic handgun that his father purchased for him as a Christmas gift days before the massacre.

He was a 15-year-old at the time of the shooting. He pleaded guilty in Oakland County Circuit Court to a total of 24 charges, including one count of terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder.

Crumbley was also charged with seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

“Ethan Crumbley’s guilty plea is one small step forward on a long path towards obtaining full justice for our clients. We will continue to fight until the truth is revealed about what went wrong leading up to this tragedy,” Ven Johnson, a lawyer representing several families of the victims, said in a statement.

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He killed four of his classmates and wounded more than half a dozen other people in the attack.

Two boys, aged 17 and 16, and two girls, aged 17 and 14, were killed while six other students and a teacher were wounded.

Crumbley wore an orange jumpsuit and a white mask over his nose and mouth while his left hand remained shackled during the hearing.

As he stood at the podium, he answered “Yes” to a series of questions the judge and prosecutor asked him, confirming his guilty plea.

Zainab Sa’id