Seventeen-year-old Ethan Crumbley, who, on November 30, 2021, loaded a gun into his backpack, went to Oxford High School in Michigan and shot and killed four of his fellow students. address an Oakland County courtroom Friday before being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
After testimony from witnesses and victims, Crumbley, who was just 15 years old when he killed 16-year-old Tate Myre, 16-year-old Justin Shilling, Hana St. Juliana, 14, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17. , made some surprising admissions.
“I'm a very bad person,” said the teenager. “I've done terrible things that no one should ever have to do. I've lied and I'm untrustworthy. I've hurt a lot of people.”
How BizPac Review previously reported, in addition to killing four, Crumbley injured seven people, including a teacher.
A year later, in October 2022, he pleaded guilty to all charges against him, including terrorism and first-degree murder, and reportedly withdrew his insanity plea.
In June, as the court prepared for a July hearing to determine whether a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, a sentence usually reserved for adult offenders, was appropriate, Crumbley began to show what the prosecutors described as “sporadic and disturbing behavior” in prison.
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“Recently, the defendant has begun to exhibit sporadic and disturbing behavior,” the filing says. “This behavior has been documented through reports and body cameras from jail staff responding to various incidents. It is unclear what the impetus or cause of this behavior is.”
However, Miller's July 27 hearing continued as scheduled.
A notebook in which Crumbley wrote that he “will spend the rest of my life in prison rotting like a tomato” was introduced into evidence. Fox News Digital reports
In September, it was agreed that Crumbley could indeed face such a sentence.
“Whatever the sentence is, I plan to be better than I am,” the teenager, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, told the court on Friday. “I don't know if you believe it, but the records in 15, 20, 25 years can show that I'm going to change, because I might not show it now with only two years of records, but I'm trying.”
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“All I want is for the people I heard to just have a final sense of guilt that has been served in some way in whatever capacity of faith they can recognize it,” Crumbley told Judge Kwame Rowe. “Whatever sentence they ask for, I'm asking you to give it to me because I want them to be happy and I want them to feel safe and secure and I don't want them to worry another day.”
“So, I'm very sorry, for what I've done, for what I've taken from them,” he continued. “I can't take it back, but I can do my best in the future to help other people and that's what I'm going to do.”
Judge Rowe called Crumbley's shooting “torture” and “execution” and imposed the harshest sentence possible: life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
“It is the first criminal case in the country where a defendant has been charged and convicted of terrorism as a result of a mass shooting,” notes Fox News Digital.
In death, Justin Shillin, 16, an organ donor, saved five lives after Crumbley shot him, Justin's father, Craig Shilling, told the young killer.
“As long as there are good people in the world…” Craig told Crubley, “evil will never triumph.”
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