The 9mm semi-automatic pistol used in the shooting was bought at a local gun shop on Black Friday by James Crumbley as an early Christmas present for his son, authorities said.
School officials became concerned about the younger Crumbley on Monday, a day before the shooting, when a teacher saw him searching for ammunition on his phone, McDonald told reporters. On Tuesday, a teacher found a note on Ethan’s desk and took a photo. It was a drawing of a gun pointing at the words, “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me,” McDonald said.There also was a drawing of a bullet, she said, with words above it: “Blood everywhere.” Between the gun and the bullet was a person who appeared to have been shot twice and is bleeding, she said. “My life is useless” and “The world is dead” also were written.
Ethan Crumbley and both his parents met with school officials at 10 a.m. Tuesday. His parents left, and Ethan went back to his classes with his backpack, where investigators believe he stashed the gun. Authorities were not notified, something that county Sheriff Michael Bouchard said he wishes would have been done.
About five weeks before the Stoneman Douglas shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying former student Nikolas Cruz had bought guns and planned to “slip into a school and start shooting the place up.”
Is this where we are now that all Republicans blame the school and all Democrats blame the shooter, his parents, and easy access and acceptance of guns?
Ignore. Psychiatry has no predictive power. Any real expert knows that. Your source is not a credible contributor.
The dad needs to go down hard for this one. An incredibly irresponsible gun owner who allowed his kid easy access to the gun PLUS rounds.....unreal
PARENTS BUYING A GUN FOR A 15 YEAR OLD PSYCHO.
We have a gun culture. Kids getting killed is the collateral damage. Didn’t our politicians just glorify Rittenhouse? Nominate him for awards? Hypocrisy at its best. No one cares about dead kids.
Do not blame the school, there were no prior red flag incidents
Removing this potential threat from the school and searching his backpack, locker or anywhere else was the very least the school should have done.
Please don't make news for Ethiopia! We have already recognized your secret agenda
A couple of things. When the school tells a parent that they must seek medical assistance and to take the kids with them, they can't just leave. In that case, I would've had my SRO enforce that policy. You can also call Social Services when a parent refuses.
The school should be sued for incompetence.
School administration should be charged along with the parents
The mainstream media love mass shootings, because they drive a lot of traffic and views to news outlets. Tragedy is their business model. All of this attention to mass shootings may inspire more mass shooters.
Is this the 'expert' consulted?
This kid is a carbon copy of Adam Lanza
Gun sales go up after each mass shooting
NRA
GUN CONTROL
After the fact, it’s so easy to point to the signs. And blame those who “ignored” or excused them. And it’s a great way for the media to turn the storyline away from the truth - THAT WE STILL NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT GUNS IN AMERICA!! 🤬
The first time the kid and his parents were questioned about his threats should've been the time the school expelled him and alerted the police. People from the school will be fired and likely sued for not alerting the authorities ahead of time.
If teachers saw the threat the prior day as reported, this investigation shouldn’t be too difficult
Yup. Someone should investigate how that school enabled this travesty. How on earth was it the parents' option to leave that kid in school?
The kid had the gun in his bag the very MORNING his mom and dad refused to let the school suspend him. I’d say far more people than the parents of that kid are culpable for those deaths.
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