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Michigan School Shooting Suspect Charged With Terrorism, Murder; 4 Students Dead

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Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announced that Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old suspect in the Michigan school shooting, will be charged as an adult with one count of terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of assault with intent to murder, and 12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

The suspect will be charged as an adult, McDonald said.

“There are crimes that the legislature said that are so serious, that a person who commits them can automatically be charged as an adult. First Degree Murder is the most serious of all those crimes. Second, there are facts leading up to the shooting that suggests this was not just an impulsive act,” McDonald said, who noted those facts “are not appropriate for discussion” at this time. . .

Four students died due to the shooting. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard identified three of the students on Tuesday as 16-year-old Tate Myre, 14-year-old Hana St. Juliana, and 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin. . .

The fourth student died on Wednesday morning and was identified as 15-year-old Justin Shilling. McDonald clarified at the press conference that Shilling was 15, not 17 as previously reported. (Read more from “Michigan School Shooting Suspect Charged With Terrorism, Murder; 4 Students Dead” HERE)

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Student Reportedly Shot on First Day of in-Person Learning in Arkansas

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A student was shot at an Arkansas middle school early Monday on the first day that full-time classes resumed after months of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

The incident at the Watson Chapel Junior High School in Pine Bluff forced the district into a new emergency lockdown, with one student seriously injured and a second youngster in police custody, KARK-TV reported. . .

The boy, 15, is in “very serious condition,” Pine Bluff Police Chief Kelvin Sergeant said at an afternoon briefing. . .

The alleged shooter, also 15, was found by police K-9 officers hiding behind a house nearby, the chief said.

“We don’t have a definite motive right now as to why the incident occurred,” Sergeant said. “However, we do believe this was a targeted incident as opposed to a random incident.” (Read more from “Student Reportedly Shot on First Day of in-Person Learning in Arkansas” HERE)

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STEM School Shooting Could Have Been Prevented If a Parent’s Report Was Taken Seriously

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Five months ago, a parent called Douglas County School Board of Education Director Wendy Vogel to express concerns about problems at the STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Specifically, the anonymous parent expressed concerns about bullying and violence. The parent feared the school could become the next Columbine because of allegations of violence, sexual assault and bullying on campus.

Daniel Winsor, a district official, wrote a letter on Dec. 19, urging STEM School Executive Director Penelope Eucker to investigate the concerns to determine “their legitimacy, and to take any remedial action that may be appropriate,” KUSA-TV reported.

The letter referenced the parents concerns, saying “many students are suicidal and violent in school. Several students have reported sexual assault in school and that nothing is being done.”

“The concerns expressed by this individual are very serious and need to be looked into to the extent possible. Please keep (the district) apprised of your investigation and conclusions,” Winsor said, CNN reported. . .

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about mass shooters: there are always warning signs. There are always things that people thought were odd. Most of the time though, people don’t speak up because they’re afraid they’re going to seem paranoid. This parent did the right thing. This parent reported suspicious activity to the school district and expected something authorities to act on the concern. (Read more from “STEM School Shooting Could Have Been Prevented If a Parent’s Report Was Taken Seriously” HERE)

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2 in Custody After Another Tragic School Shooting

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By The Daily Caller. Two suspects are in custody following a school shooting outside Denver that left eight students injured Tuesday, officials said.

The shooting happened at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school that serves kids in grades K-12, The Associated Press reported. It is about 15 miles away from Denver.

“Two individuals walked into the STEM school, got deep inside the school and engaged students in two separate locations,” Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said during a press conference Tuesday.

The suspects, one adult and one juvenile, are believed to be students at the STEM school, Spurlock said. . .

Some students were in critical conditions while some were in stable conditions, Spurlock said.

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1 Dead, 8 Hurt in Colorado School Shooting, 2 in Custody

By AP. Two students opened fire Tuesday inside a charter school in an affluent suburb of Denver not far from Columbine High School , killing a teenager, wounding eight and spreading terror before they were taken into custody, authorities said. . .

Authorities identified one of the suspects late Tuesday as 18-year-old Devon Erickson. Spurlock said the second suspect is a juvenile and that both attended the school. They were not previously known to authorities, he said. . .

The shooting took place exactly a week after a gunman killed two students and wounded four at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. It also comes nearly three weeks after neighboring Littleton marked the grim 20th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre that killed 13 people. The two schools are separated by about 7 miles (11 kilometers) in adjacent communities south of Denver. (Read more from “1 Dead, 8 Hurt in Colorado School Shooting, 2 in Custody” HERE)

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Indiana Police Thwart Would-Be School Shooter’s Plan

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By The Blaze. An unidentified male teenager is dead after police thwarted plans to attack an Indiana school on Thursday. . .

The teenager was on his way to Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond, Indiana, when police received a tip that the teen was planning to carry out a plan to commit violence at the school.

However, the police were able to act quickly and stop the teen from carrying out his plan.

CNN reports that the teen exchanged gunfire with officers at the school before turning the gun on himself, according to Indiana State Police Sgt. John Bowling. . .

It is unclear at this time whether the teen was a student at the school, or why the teen decided to target Dennis Intermediate School, which enrolls 560 children from grades 5-8. No students were injured in the incident. (Read more from “Indiana Police Thwart Would-Be School Shooter’s Plan” HERE)

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Teen Planned to Commit Violence at Indiana School, but Police Say Tipster Helped Them Stop Him

By CNN. A teenager was en route to an Indiana middle school Thursday to commit an act of violence, but police were able to stop him after receiving a tip, state police said. . .

“Someone knew something, and they said something,” the sergeant said, attributing the fact that no students were hurt to the tipster.

Richmond Community Schools received the tip, notified police and put all of its schools on lockdown before the police or gunman arrived, district spokeswoman Bridget Hazelbaker said. . .

The suspect was a former student in the district, Hazelbaker said. It was not clear which school he attended. (Read more from “Teen Planned to Commit Violence at Indiana School, but Police Say Tipster Helped Them Stop Him” HERE)

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School Shooter Targeted Certain Students

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. . .As more details emerged about the shooting that left 10 people dead and 13 injured at the Houston-area school, the student who authorities said confessed to the attack was being held in isolation Saturday as officials identified the victims . . .

“We are gratified by the public comments made by other Santa Fe High School students that show Dimitri as we know him: a smart, quiet, sweet boy,” the family statement said. “While we remain mostly in the dark about the specifics of yesterday’s tragedy, what we have learned from media reports seems incompatible with the boy we love.”

One of Pagourtzis’ classmates who died in the attack, Shana Fisher, “had 4 months of problems from this boy,” her mother, Sadie Rodriguez, wrote in a private message to the Los Angeles Times on Facebook. “He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no.”

Pagourtzis continued to get more aggressive, and she finally stood up to him and embarrassed him in class, Rodriguez said. “A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn’t like,” she wrote. “Shana being the first one.” Rodriguez didn’t say how she knew her daughter was the first victim. . .

After scrambling to escape the shooter’s blasts in the art room, Isabelle Van Ness, covered in dust from rounds hitting her classroom walls, could hear the shooter in a next-door classroom yelling, “Woo hoo!” while shooting, according to her mother, Deedra Van Ness. (Read more from “School Shooter Targeted Certain Students” HERE)

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Everyone Is Freaking out over Man Who Showed up to Shooting Scene with His Flag and Gun

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. . .During the inevitable gun debate that immediately went into play on social media, one man who showed up on the scene and stoked the debate to new heights for what he was wearing — and carrying.

The man who wasn’t yet identified said he was there to “Make America Great Again.” The fact that he was wearing a Trump hat, carrying the American flag, and had a handgun on his side was not lost on anyone.

A second man in the video was enraged by the flag waving Patriot, saying that while he supports the Second Amendment, it was the wrong move to show up with his gun out in the open.

(Read more from “Everyone Is Freaking out over Man Who Showed up to Shooting Scene with His Flag and Gun” HERE)

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Surprise! A ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ STOPS School Shooting

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By WND. It’s another prime example of how a good guy with a gun can save dozens of innocent lives when under attack by a madman hellbent on mass murder.

A student gunman at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland tore through the campus at 8 a.m. Tuesday, shooting and injuring two students . . .

But an armed school resource officer, Blaine Gaskill, wasn’t about to stand down or wait for backup.

He was determined to save innocent young lives. So Gaskill wasted no time in pursuing attacker Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, who was armed with a Glock handgun.

Gaskill fired a round at the gunman and quickly neutralized the threat. (Read more from “Surprise! A ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ STOPS School Shooting” HERE)

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Maryland School Officer Stops Armed Student Who Shot 2 Others

By CNN. A 17-year-old male student shot two other students at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday morning before a school resource officer engaged him and stopped the threat, authorities said. . .

School resource officer Blaine Gaskill responded to the scene in less than a minute, the sheriff said. Gaskill fired a round at the shooter, and the shooter fired a round simultaneously, Cameron said.

Rollins was later pronounced dead. Gaskill was unharmed. The 16-year-old female student is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, and the 14-year-old male student who was shot is in stable condition.

Cameron said he was not sure whether Gaskill’s bullet hit the suspect, but he praised the officer’s quick response to the situation. (Read more from “Maryland School Officer Stops Armed Student Who Shot 2 Others” HERE)

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Trump Criticized After Georgia Teacher Taken Into Custody Following School Shooting

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Police in Georgia have responded to a reported school shooting at Dalton High School Wednesday.

A teacher who was barricaded inside a classroom is now in custody, police say. No children were harmed, and the school has been evacuated.

This is a developing story. We do not have the facts. We do not know what happened. Police are still investigating.

Yet without the facts, individuals on social media are using the shooting to criticize President Donald Trump’s proposal to permit armed teachers or faculty in schools.

This is a developing story.

Update:

Dalton Police officials held a briefing to update the press. The teacher, identified as 53-year-old Randal Davidson, surrendered to police. He had locked himself into his classroom, allowing nobody in, and fired a shot from a handgun through an exterior window of the classroom when the principal attempted to enter the room. The spokesman said that it “did not appear that it was aimed at anybody.” (For more from the author of “Trump Criticized After Georgia Teacher Taken Into Custody Following School Shooting” please click HERE)

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Teacher Suspended After Asking Students to Remember Him If He Died During School Shooting

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A popular high school social studies teacher in New Jersey was suspended after telling students to remember him if he died protecting them during a school shooting, according to a report Monday.

Timothy Locke, 59, an AP World History teacher at Cherry Hill High School East was put on administrative leave Thursday after making controversial comments about the Parkland massacre, reported philly.com.

The high school teacher caused a female student to get upset after bringing up the aftermath from the horrific shooting spree led by 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz who killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14.

“He said the chances of East being shot up were high,” said Gabriel Ritter, 17, alleging that Locke made these comments during class.

Ritter, a senior at the school, added that he went to the principal’s office with the unnamed female student to voice their apprehensions over Locke’s statements.

Locke claimed later that day he was also called to the principal’s office to have his bag searched and undergo a physical and psychiatric evaluation. He was then placed on administrative leave.

“He made some kind of remark from what I understand, tongue in cheek, that if this ever happens here, ‘I have your back. I’ll protect you.’ And something to the extent of, ‘If I do that, I want you guys to erect a memorial for me in front of the building,’ in jest,” said Eric Ascalon, whose son was a previous student of Locke.

Ascalon added that other parents are outraged the teacher was fired over the remarks, reported CBS News.

Locke also discussed his hesitations over lack of armed guards at the high school since the “campus police” are not armed. The high school teacher previously referenced a 2000 New York Times article that stressed similarities between Cherry Hill High School East and Columbine due to the suburban location, top athletes and students.

“The bottom line is that I was very concerned about the security at my school,” said Locke. “I was adamantly concerned with the welfare of my students.”

Following Locke’s suspension, students started a protest against the administration Monday morning. A video shows the Cherry Hill East administration telling students that if they keep protesting they will get suspended nor be allowed to go to prom, reported the PhillyVoice.

Two students also started a petition, garnishing more than 500+ signatures. They called the administration suspending Locke “an injustice.”

“All I have ever done for that school is for my students and for their parents,” said Locke.

Frustrated parents are planning on going to a Board of Education meeting Tuesday.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to the Cherry Hill East Principal Dennis Perry but received no comment in time of publication.

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.