The student had a dispute with a classmate who was taunting him he took out a gun and shot and killed the classmate and injured a second student.Īccording to news accounts, a doctor who examined the shooter said he had an extremely rare form of mental illness and was a “true paranoiac.” The Ingham County prosecutor declared the student mentally ill. That student was described by authorities as “a brilliant loner,” according to news accounts. In 1978, a 15-year-old student at Everett High School in Lansing who was known for wearing a Nazi pin and talking about Adolf Hitler was jeered by classmates. Only a few Michigan school shootings since 1970 have had such a high profile.

The overwhelming majority of school shootings in Michigan over the past 50 years, by contrast, have been either gang-related or involved some type of previous dispute between parties, leading to gunfire. Columbine, Parkland and Oxford appear to have in common the fact that a shooter had the intent of indiscriminately killing people. The Parkland and Oxford shootings were both similar to and different from the 1999 Columbine High School tragedy in which two teenagers shot and killed 12 students and one teacher.īut a review of available data on shootings that occurred on or near K-12 school property in Michigan over the past 50 years reveals that the Oxford shooting may have been unique in this state’s history. 30 Oxford, Michigan, school shooting, in which 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley shot 11 people in what appears to be an indiscriminate selection of victims. That type of shooting is similar to the Nov. In Parkland, Florida, the term “school shooting” conjures up the nightmare reality of a 19-year-old former student entering a high school and indiscriminately shooting 34 people, of whom 17 died. To answer that question would require a precise definition of a “school shooting.” It carried the headline, “Will My Students Ever Know A World Without School Shootings?” 7 op-ed written by a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the wake of the Oxford school shooting, The New York Times ran a Dec.

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