Oxford High School shooting: 3 students dead, 8 hurt including 1 teacher

OXFORD, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Oakland County peace officer same 3 students were killed and eight alternatives are hurt once somebody started shooting within Oxford highschool on Tuesday.

consistent with Oakland County Undersheriff archangel McCabe, three students were killed within the shooting and there have been a minimum of eight other victims together with a teacher. The sheriff additionally said that the suspect could be a 15-year-old sophomore at the varsity and has invoked his right to stay silent.

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McCabe said the primary of more than one hundred calls came into 911 at 12:51 p.m. to a report of a shooting. Deputies straight off olderd true|gone through|had|undergone|passed through|saw|felt|suffered} the scene and took the suspect into custody however not till once he shot eleven people, killing three:

16-year-old Allen Tate Myre died within a auto whereas deputies were taking him to the hospital
14-year-old Hana St. Juliana
17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin
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throughout an update at ten p.m., peace officer archangel Bouchard attributable intense and rigorous coaching for the fast actions to require the shooter into custody.

"Oxford has been one in every of the additional proactive school districts. this type of factor will happen anywhere," Bouchard same.

He additionally said that deputies failed to hesitate once they arrived.

"The highschool has approx 1,800 students. Cars were sent at 12:52. at intervals 2 minutes that they had the suspect in custody," Bouchard said. "The deputies faraway from the suspects a nine metric linear unit Sig Sauer firearm was still loaded and had seven rounds of ammunition. once they took it from him he was walking down the hall. That interrupted what might are seven additional victims."

Bouchard same the gun was bought simply four days ago, on Friday, Nov. 26, by the suspect' father.

He said there have been no previous issues of threats or associate degreey indication the suspect was coming up with the mass shooting.
The suspect failed to resist officers once they arrived. McCabe said he asked for an professional person and would supply no details concerning a potential motive.

Around 2:00 p.m., medical helicopters together with the University of Michigan' Survival Flight had landed in the car parking zone of the varsity as a secondary search was being conducted round the perimeter of the school.

Isabel Flores, a 15-year-old freshman, was within the school once the gunshots we have a tendency tore fired. She told FOX 2' Charlie Langton they detected gunshots and saw another student trauma from the face before all of them ran from the realm through the rear of the school.

Another student we spoke with, known solely as Savannah, same that the school conducts mass shooting coaching and that they knew what to do.
once the internment was lifted, students from the highschool were sent to the Meijer car parking zone across the road from the varsity.

A parent sitting {in a|during a|in associate degree exceedingly|in a very} automotive told FOX a pair of that his student within had to barricade inside a room once they detected the gunshots being dismissed inside the school. He same his son wasn't physically hurt.
consistent with an alert sent bent Oxford parents, a lively emergency was according at the school around one p.m. and it's gone into emergency protocols and place the school into lockdown.

By 2 p.m., students were being discharged and dozens of ambulances and emergency personnel found the scene.

The alert sent to oldsters urged them to not come back to the varsity at this time.

There are multiple units on the scene together with SWAT and also the aviation unit and the peace officer same the scene continues to be active.

Oxford could be a village population of just below 3,400 concerning thirty miles north of Detroit.

prosecuting attorney Karenic McDonald released the subsequent statement concerning the shooting at Oxford highschool today:

"I was each horrified and saddened to be told concerning the shootings at Oxford highschool this afternoon. My workplace and that i are in constant communication with the Sheriff’s Office, the Oakland County Juvenile Court, and alternative governmental and enforcement bodies.
The suspected shooter is in custody and that we have begun the method of receiving data concerning the investigation.

"It is our intent to review it totally and issue applicable charges quickly. The suspect can stay in custody unfinished those charges.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the kids who died, the children and teacher who were contused and also their families, students, oldsters and workers at the school, and the larger community. all of them have my commitment and my promise that i will be able to get justice for every of them.

"My workplace is creating our full resources offered to the Oxford community, together with our 2 canine advocates. we'll support the victims and their families throughout the process."