The terror at Michigan's Oxford High School that left four dead started with gunfire, yelling and an urgent message on a loudspeaker.
Then frightened students barricaded doors, phoned for help and picked up anything they could grab in case they needed to fight back.
Aiden Page. a senior, was in a classroom when he heard two gunshots Tuesday afternoon -- part of what authorities called a sophomore's "absolutely cold-hearted, murderous" rampage that left four students dead and seven other people injured in the deadliest shooting at a US K-12 school since 2018.
Just like in the active shooter drills they'd practiced, Page watched his teacher run in and lock the door, then students shoved desks against it, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"We grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case the shooter got in and we had to attack them," he said, describing how a bullet pierced one of the desks they'd used to block the door.
In a sign language class, freshman Mark Kluska heard someone announce a lockdodwn over the school's loudspeakers. His teacher shut the door and fixed it with a metal doorstop.
"I started realizing it was real when I began to hear yelling," Kluska told CNN.
"We're not willing to take that risk right now," the teacher replies.
It's not clear who the person at the door was. But the teacher quickly signaled students to scramble out a first-floor window into the snow, Kluska said. From there, they raced across a courtyard to another part of the building, where a law enforcement officer herded them to safety.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard confirmed during a news conference Wednesday the suspect never knocked on any doors.
More than 100 calls to 911 were made. About two to three minutes after officers arrived, they found a 15-year-old suspect, later identified as Ethan Crumbley, and took him into custody without incident, Bouchard said.
Crumbley has been charged as an adult with terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. He also was charged with seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald said.
The suspect's lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his client's behalf at Wednesday's arraignment. The judge scheduled a probable cause hearing for December 13 and a preliminary examination hearing for December 20.
During Crumbley's arraignment Wednesday, Lt. Tim Willis said two separate videos were recovered from the suspected shooter's cellphone in which he talked about shooting and killing students the next day at Oxford High School.
In addition to the cellphone, a journal was recovered from Crumbley's backpack detailing his "desire to shoot up the school," Willis said.
Later, someone outside the room who claimed to be with the sheriff's office told Kluska and his classmates that all was safe and they could come out, a video the freshman recorded shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnoVx5j1Tqw
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/us/michigan-oxford-high-school-shooting-wednesday/index.html

Legalizing gun will never solve any problem.. If the casualties gotten from gun shots can be counted in the US. It will be in thousands. I can't imagine Nigerian govt legalizing carrying of weapons... It will be as if Na war dem declare. Before they notice 200m+ go remain 50m+.. We never legalize sef see trouble not to talk of when they do

habsydiamond:
Legalizing gun will never solve any problem.. If the casualties gotten from gun shots can be counted in the US. It will be in thousands. I can't imagine Nigerian govt legalizing carrying of weapons... It will be as if Na war dem declare. Before they notice 200m+ go remain 50m+.. We never legalize sef see trouble not to talk of when they do

Let them legalize guns in Nigeria jare at least no one will have the bragging right to killing.
I can't imagine someone forming Rambo just because his carrying a heavy metal. If we all own guns then nah light them as you dey sight them no time for talk-talk.

I don’t care. It seems guns being legal for everyone is a good way to control their population. That little terrorist won’t survive a day in prison.