Oxford School Shooting: What We Know

A gunman opened occurrence astatine Oxford High School successful Michigan connected Tuesday afternoon, shooting 11 people. Three students were killed and respective others were near critically and earnestly injured.

A 15-year-old antheral pupil was aboriginal arrested successful transportation with the shooting and was being held astatine a juvenile jail, the authorities said.

The deadly gunfire successful Oxford, successful Oakland County — astir 30 miles northbound of Detroit — added to a increasing database of shootings connected schoolhouse grounds successful the United States this twelvemonth aft a lull during the coronavirus pandemic, erstwhile galore schools held classes remotely.

The shooting was the deadliest this year, according to Education Week, which tracks specified shootings and reported that determination had been 28 truthful acold successful 2021.

Many details, including the sanction of the fishy and a motive, remained unclear. Here’s what we know.

What happened astatine the school?

At 12:51 p.m. connected Tuesday, the authorities received the archetypal of much than a 100 911 calls astir the shooting.

When students astatine Oxford High School archetypal heard the gunshots, they rushed for screen and utilized chairs to barricade themselves down schoolroom doors. Within 5 minutes, the authorities said, 11 radical had been shot.

Had determination been nary intervention, Sheriff Bouchard added, “we mightiness be, if it’s possible, successful a worse situation.”

What was the aftermath?

After the shooting, students said they fled from the building. Some parents rushed to a adjacent market store to reunite with their children.

Officials crossed the state expressed daze and issued statements of sadness and frustration, arsenic residents of Oakland County announced a vigil and prepared for funerals.

Democratic leaders renewed their calls for much to beryllium done to trim weapon violence.

“No 1 should beryllium acrophobic to spell to school,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said successful a statement. Later, astatine a quality conference, she added. “I deliberation this is each parent’s worst nightmare.”

What bash we cognize astir the victims?

The authorities identified those killed as Hana St. Juliana, 14; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and Tate Myre, 16, who died successful a sheriff’s squad car portion connected the mode to a hospital.

“There was nary clip to wait,” Sheriff Bouchard said of the lawman who enactment Tate, who had been a shot player, into his car.

Seven different injured students ranged successful property from 14 to 17, officials said, including 3 who were successful captious information and different who was successful superior condition.

“It’s looking precise pugnacious for this young girl,” Sheriff Bouchard said.

The lone big who was injured, an unidentified 47-year-old teacher, had been discharged from the hospital, helium added.

What bash we cognize astir the suspect?

Few details are known astir the arrested student, whom the authorities person described arsenic a sophomore astatine Oxford High School and a nonmigratory of Oxford Village, a suburb with a colonisation of less than 3,500 people.

After the fishy was apprehended, helium declined to talk portion successful the beingness of his parents, officials said. The household has hired a lawyer, they added.

Officials person not identified a motive.

“The idiosyncratic that’s got the astir penetration into the motive is not talking,” Sheriff Bouchard said astatine the quality briefing.

He added that the 9-millimeter Sig Sauer handgun utilized successful the shooting had been bought by the suspect’s begetter 4 days earlier. The weapon had 15 circular magazines, helium said, 2 of which had truthful acold been recovered astatine the school.

The authorities said that they did not judge that the pupil had planned the shooting with anyone other and that they were inactive investigating.

Mass shootings astatine schools person been a recurring calamity successful the United States. In 2018, a gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 others astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland, Fla. That aforesaid year, a gunman killed 10 people astatine Santa Fe High School successful Texas.

“This is simply a uniquely American occupation that we request to address,” Ms. Whitmer said connected Tuesday.