DETROIT—A teenager awaiting sentencing for killing four students at a Michigan high school has been “exhibiting sporadic, disturbing behavior” in jail, prosecutors said, just a month before a key hearing to determine if he will serve a life prison term. The disclosure about Ethan Crumbley, 17, was made in a court document this week and…

Around 20 students at a Michigan high school where four students were killed in a mass shooting last year have filed a lawsuit against the school district saying their constitutional rights to safety and education were violated. The law firm representing the students announced the lawsuit on Friday. It names the Oxford Community School District, its…

By Mike Martindale From The Detroit News DETROIT—One of the Oxford High School students who survived being shot on November 30 has filed a federal lawsuit against the school district and four top officials for failing to intervene to prevent the tragedy. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 17-year-old Kylie Ossege, a recent Oxford…

DETROIT—A judge on Thursday set a Sept. 6 trial date for a teenager charged with murder and other crimes in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students. Oakland County Judge Kwame Rowe said the date could change but he wanted to set one to “move this case forward.” Ethan Crumbley, who turns 16 next…

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.—A teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense, his lawyers said in a notice filed Thursday as he, his parents, and school officials faced a new lawsuit over the attack at Oxford High School. The notice, listed in a summary of case filings, should lead…

A Michigan congresswoman on Wednesday announced she plans to introduce a bill that would mandate safe storage of guns after the alleged shooter at Oxford High School last month was said to have acquired the gun he used from an unlocked drawer. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said her bill, the Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act,…

A Michigan school district has been sued over its alleged failure to stop a school shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Parents of a girl who was shot in the neck during the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School filed the suits, one on behalf of the girl and the…

Michigan’s attorney general has reached out to the school district in which a shooting took place last week, offering assistance to authorities in their investigations. “Our attorneys and special agents are uniquely qualified to perform an investigation of this magnitude and are prepared to perform an extensive investigation and inquiry to answer the many questions…

PONTIAC, Mich.—A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded, the Michigan district’s superintendent said, with the Michigan attorney general responding Sunday that her office could conduct it. Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne said…

The parents of a 15-year-old Michigan boy who allegedly opened fire in a high school this week pleaded not guilty on Saturday to involuntary manslaughter charges. Jennifer Crumbley, 49, and James Crumbley, 45, appeared at the virtual Oakland County hearing after being apprehended by law enforcement at a vacant building in Detroit late Friday. Prosecutors…