
According to Throne, the student told guidance counselors that his drawing of a bullet with the words “blood everywhere” above a person who appeared to have been shot along with the words “my life is useless” and “the world is dead” was part of a video game design.

Throne also gave more details about the school’s interactions with the 15-year-old student who killed four of his classmates and wounded seven others.
#Crumbley parents charged full
“It’s critically important to the victims, our staff and our entire community that a full and transparent accounting be made,” he said. Throne said in a statement on Saturday that he called for the outside investigation because parents have asked questions about “the school’s version of events leading up to the shooting.” UPDATE, 7:47 p.m.: Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne has called for a third party to investigate events that led to the deadly school shooting at Oxford High School, the Associated Press reports. What Crumbley and his enabling parents are charged with having done to this community is horrific and permanent, as devastating as an atom bomb, as tough to remove as a bloodstain.Īnd yes, I said his parents, because when grown-ups buy handguns as a “Christmas present” for underaged kids and send “you have to learn not to get caught” messages when their son is discovered shopping for ammunition on his phone during class, and when they are called to an emergency meeting at the school because their son drew an image of a gun and a wounded person and the words “blood everywhere” and “my life is useless” and “help me” and yet they don’t think he needs to go home with them, and they don’t even offer the information that just a few days earlier they bought a new pistol into the house that their son posted as “my new beauty” - then yes, in my view, they are culpable, just as the Oakland County prosecutor indicated in charging them with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
UPDATE, 12:44 a.m.: Detroit Free Press columnist and bestselling author Mitch Albom wrote in his Sunday column:
