Ethan Crumbley introduced severed chicken head to high school earlier than lethal capturing, lawsuit alleges

A civil lawsuit filed in opposition to Oxford Neighborhood College District this week accuses directors of placing college students in peril by allegedly downplaying the actions of the accused gunman earlier than a capturing that left 4 college students useless and 7 different individuals injured. 

Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old suspect, posted “countdowns and threats of bodily hurt,” the lawsuit alleged. The grievance claims the teenager left “a severed chicken head in a mason jar containing a yellow liquid” in a college lavatory. 

The college then emailed college students and oldsters that “there was no menace to our constructing nor our college students,” the lawsuit mentioned. 

The morning of the capturing, a instructor at the highschool was alarmed when she noticed a notice on Crumbley’s desk that contained a drawing of a gun, a bullet and an individual who gave the impression to be bleeding. 

An legal professional for the college informed CBS Information that a number of the claims within the lawsuit are false, including that faculty officers are cooperating with prosecutors. 

Crumbley entered a not responsible plea on Wednesday throughout a courtroom look. He faces 24 counts, together with homicide and terrorism prices, linked to the capturing. 

The teen’s mother and father are additionally accused of ignoring warning indicators and permitting their son entry to the gun used within the capturing. Police tracked them down in a Detroit warehouse within the days after the capturing and so they now face involuntary manslaughter prices. 

At their listening to Friday, prosecutors made allegations about Crumbley’s psychological state, saying, “Ethan Crumbley would textual content his mom, Jennifer, on multiple event and all the time when he was dwelling alone that he thought there was a demon, a ghost or another person inside the house.”