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kpete

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Sat Dec 4, 2021, 09:49 AM Dec 2021

Morning of Shooting -While the Crumbleys sat in Principal's Office- The gun was in Ethan's backpack. [View all]

Let this sink in. While the Crumbleys sat in the Principal's Office the morning of the shooting, presumably with Ethan present.........the gun was in his backpack. When asked if they would take Ethan home, the parents insisted that he be sent back to class, and THEY WENT HOME.


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Michigan school shooting: Ethan Crumbley ‘had gun with him’ at parent-teacher meeting hours before massacre
Prosecutors say the handgun Crumbley allegedly used in Tuesday’s deadly shooting was in his backpack when he arrived at school that morning.

The teen accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at his Michigan high school allegedly had the gun in his backpack during a meeting with administrators and his parents just three hours before the attack.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/michigan-school-shooting-ethan-crumbley-parent-meeting-b1969306.html
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I guess schools are going to need metal detectors and check on backpacks before Irish_Dem Dec 2021 #1
Some ISD's were doing this at some schools. MagickMuffin Dec 2021 #2
Nothing is being done to make schools safer. Irish_Dem Dec 2021 #4
Indeed, the gun lobby is just too strong and powerful MagickMuffin Dec 2021 #7
Leaders who are corrupt and cowards. Will do nothing to save the lives of children. Irish_Dem Dec 2021 #8
There's been metal detectors Elessar Zappa Dec 2021 #12
Yep. The suburbs and small towns are where the murder of school children take place. Irish_Dem Dec 2021 #19
..... Tanuki Dec 2021 #3
+1 bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #5
This ☝🏽 Sunsky Dec 2021 #6
"Mama" probably packed it for him with Bettie Dec 2021 #9
It's amazing to me that no one searched his backpack and locker. BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #10
I was thinking the same thing. shrike3 Dec 2021 #11
Its a problem that the school didnt see Ethan as an imminent threat SYFROYH Dec 2021 #15
It's amazing. BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #16
I heard that lockers are no longer used due to Covid. BigmanPigman Dec 2021 #20
And neither the parents not the school folks thought they should search that backpack malaise Dec 2021 #13
I don't get why the parents were allowed to choose leftstreet Dec 2021 #14
I know. BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #17
+1 crickets Dec 2021 #18
As a teacher I know first hand that schools have to be very BigmanPigman Dec 2021 #21
You'd think dead kids would be a bigger legal problem leftstreet Dec 2021 #22
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