Ten year old Daniel Issac Marquez was arrested for making threats regarding a school shooting in Florida. According to police reports Daniel Issac Marquez made threats on social media stating that he was planning a school shooting at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral Florida and that he scammed a friend for money and bought an automatic rifle. Needless to say the police caught wind of the threat and the ten year old Daniel Issac Marquez was arrested.
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A 10-year-old Florida student was arrested Saturday for allegedly making a threat of a mass shooting.
“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno says in a statement. “Making sure our children are safe is paramount. We will have law and order in our schools! My team didn’t hesitate one secondNOT ONE SECOND, to investigate this threat.”
The sheriff’s office says it learned on Saturday “of a threatening text message sent by a fifth grade student at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral.”
Deputies say the School Threat Enforcement Team immediately began analytical research. The Youth Services Criminal Investigations Division then assumed the case.
Detectives interviewed Marquez and developed probable cause for his arrest, according to the sheriff’s office.
“Right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” Sheriff Marceno stated. “This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”
Chad Padilla who shot another student at a Italy Texas high school was found dead in prison. According to court documents Chad Padilla would open fire in the Italy High School cafeteria and would strike fellow student Mahkayla Jones multiple times. Thankfully Mahkayla Jones would survive her injuries. Chad Padilla would be convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to forty years in prison. On March 21 2022 Chad Padilla would be found dead in his prison cell at the Telford Unit. Chad Padilla death is being investigated as a suicide
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A Texas man serving a 40-year sentence for shooting a classmate multiple times in a high school cafeteria in 2018 died in prison Monday.
Chad Padilla, 20, died March 21 at the Telford Unit in New Boston. According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, jail staff found Padilla unresponsive at about 1:50 a.m. and began CPR. He was taken to the medical facility where EMS and paramedics pronounced him deceased at about 2:25 a.m.
Prison officials said Padilla’s cause of death has not yet been confirmed and that his death is being investigated as a suicide.
Padilla, who was serving a 40-year sentence for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted capital murder, pleaded guilty in June 2019 to shooting Mahkayla Jones six times in the Italy High School cafeteria in January 2018.
Jones, who survived the shooting, testified she hugged Padilla in the cafeteria, asked him to sit, and told him he appeared angry. She said that’s when he drew back and told her, “Sorry it had to end this way,” and shot her six times.
The person who shot a classmate at Italy High School back in 2018 was found dead in his Northeast Texas prison cell in a suspected suicide.
Chad Padilla was sentenced to 40 years for aggravated assault for the shooting
Prison officials said he was found dead in his cell just before 2 a.m. on Monday. His death is being investigated as a suicide.
Padilla shot a classmate when he was 16. He opened fire inside Italy High School’s cafeteria and shot 16-year-old Mahkayla Jones six times in the neck, arm and abdomen. Jones survived.
Fifteen year old Ethan Crumbley has been charged with four counts of murder in the school shooting that took place at Oxford High School in Michigan. According to police reports Ethan Crumbley arrived at school armed with a 9mm Sig Sauer and opened fire killing four students. Ethan Crumbley who allegedly told police that he was being bullied at school left a few cryptic social media messages before the tragedy occurred. Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin. Justin Shilling, 17, died in the hospital on Wednesday morning. Ethan Crumbley has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of terrorism causing death, seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
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Ethan Crumbley, who is accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, will be tried as an adult and faces murder, assault and weapons charges.He will also face one count of terrorism causing death, a rare charge for a school shooting.The events unfolded Tuesday at Oxford High School when, law enforcement officials say, the 15-year-old shot at people in a school hallway, firing more than 30 shots at people and through classroom doors. Three people died Tuesday and another passed away at a hospital Wednesday.
Seven others — six students and a teacher — were wounded, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.
The county’s top prosecutor addressed the terrorism charge.
“There is no playbook about how to prosecute a school shooting and candidly, I wish I’d never even had — it didn’t occur so I wouldn’t have to consider it, but when we sat down, I wanted to make sure all of the victims were represented in the charges that we filed against this individual,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told CNN. “If that’s not terrorism, I don’t know what is.”She said there is a lot of digital evidence in the case — video and things on social media.”But you probably don’t even need to see that to know how terrifying it is to be in close proximity of another student shooting and killing fellow students. I mean, it’s terror,” she added.
“Like every other child that was in that building, and I address that about the terrorism charge, we must have an appropriate consequence that speaks for the victims that were not killed or injured but also, they were affected, how do they go back to school?”She said many students can’t eat or sleep.”Their parents are sleeping next to them and we shouldn’t ignore that,” she told CNN. “There are obviously four children who were murdered and many others injured but over 1,000 were also victimized as well.”At Crumbley’s arraignment Wednesday, prosecutor Marc Keast said Crumbley came out of a school bathroom and started firing. Crumbley walked down the hall at a “methodical pace” and fired more shots.This continued for another four or five minutes and he went to another bathroom, Keast said. When deputies arrived, Crumbley put the gun down and surrendered, the prosecutor said.The judge entered a plea of not guilty per his attorney’s request.
Michigan law defines an act of terrorism as a “willful and deliberate act that is all of the following:””An act that would be a violent felony under the laws of this state, whether or not committed in this state.”An act that the person knows or has reason to know is dangerous to human life.”An act that is intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence or affect the conduct of government or a unit of government through intimidation or coercion.”The criminal complaint against Crumbley refers to the third condition and says the act was committed against the Oxford High School community.Charging an accused school shooter with terrorism is rare. In 2018, an Ocala, Florida student who shot through a door and wounded another student, was charged with terrorism and later pleaded no contest to that count and other charges.
That incident occurred two months after gunman Nikolas Cruz shot more than 30 people as he moved for more than 10 minutes through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.Cruz was charged with 34 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder. He did not face a terrorism charge. He recently pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
A 14-year-old boy was discharged from a hospital on Wednesday.
A 14-year-old girl has improved from critical condition after being shot in the left chest and neck.
A 15-year-old boy who suffered a left leg gunshot wound was discharged on Tuesday.
A 17-year-old girl is in stable condition after being shot in the neck.
A 17-year-old girl is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest.
A 17-year-old boy was discharged Tuesday after being shot in the hip.
A 47-year-old teacher who was shot in her left shoulder was discharged Tuesday.
Ethan Crumbley Parents: James and Jennifer Crumbley
Ethan Crumbley parents have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for buying their son a 9mm Sig Sauer which was used in the tragic school shooting at Oxford High School leaving four students dead and many more injured. Apparently the parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, have fled to avoid being arrested
Authorities have said their son brought a gun to school on Tuesday and methodically fired at fleeing students. Four were killed and seven others injured, including a teacher..
Details of what led up to the rampage were revealed Friday during a court hearing and related news conference held by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald.
She said James Crumbley purchased a 9mm Sig Sauer SP 2022 used in the shooting at a gun store in Oxford on Nov. 26. She said a store employee confirmed Ethan Crumbley was with his father at the time.
She said social media posts by the teen that day show the handgun along with the caption: “Just got my new beauty today.” The next day, McDonald said, one of Jennifer Crumbley’s social media posts read: “Mom and son day testing out his new Christmas present.”
The day before the shooting, a teacher at the high school observed the teen searching ammunition on his cell phone during class and she reported it to school officials, McDonald said. Jennifer Crumbley was contacted through voicemail and email about her son’s web search. McDonald said school officials received no response from either parent.
McDonald said Jennifer Crumbley exchanged text messages with her son about the incident that day, writing: “LOL, I’m not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught.”
The next day, the day of the shooting, the teen’s teacher saw an alarming note on his desk, McDonald said. The note contained a drawing of a semiautomatic handgun pointing at the words: “The thoughts won’t stop, help me.” She said it also contained a drawing of a bullet with the words “blood everywhere” and a drawing of a person who appeared to be shot and bleeding.
Further down on the drawing, McDonald said, were the words: “My life is useless,” and “The world is dead.”
James and Jennifer Crumbley were summoned to the school that morning and Ethan Crumbley was brought to the office with his backpack, McDonald said. She said the drawing, by that point, had been altered. She said the parents were shown the drawing and told they had to get their son into counseling within 48 hours.
“Both James and Jennifer Crumbley failed to ask their son if he had his gun with him or where his gun was located and failed to inspect his backpack for the presence of the gun, which he had with him,” McDonald said.
She said the parents resisted the idea of their son leaving school at that time and they left without him.
“He was returned to the classroom,” McDonald said.
She said that once news broke that there was an active shooter at the high school, Jennifer Crumbley texted her son at 1:22 p.m.: “Ethan, don’t do it.”
Then at 1:37 p.m., McDonald said, James Crumbley called 911 reporting that a gun was missing from his house and he believed his son may be the shooter. McDonald said the investigation revealed that the gun had been stored unlocked in a drawer in James and Jennifer Crumbley’s bedroom.
Ethan Crumbley was charged Wednesday as an adult with terrorism and multiple counts of first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and gun crimes and could face up to life in prison.
The high school sophomore is accused of killing four students — Hana St. Juliana, 14; Tate Myre, 16; Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Justin Shilling, 17 — and injuring seven others during the mass shooting.
During Ethan Crumbley’s arraignment on Wednesday, Lt. Tim Willis of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said videos were recovered from the teen’s cellphone, including one “made by him the night before the incident wherein he talked about shooting and killing students the next day at Oxford High School.” He said a journal, detailing the teen’s desire to kill students, also was recovered.
Attorney Scott Kozak, who represented Ethan Crumbley during the arraignment but said he won’t be involved in the case moving forward, declined to comment after the teen’s arraignment on Wednesday. Ethan Crumbley is being held without bond at the Oakland County Jail.
During the hearing Wednesday, Assistant Prosecutor Marc Keast said school surveillance video shows Ethan Crumbley went into a bathroom just before 12:51 p.m. Tuesday and came out a minute or two later with a gun. Keast said the teen “methodically and deliberately walked down a hallway, aiming the firearm at students and firing.”
James and Jennifer Crumbley were arrested hiding in a Detroit art studio just miles from the Canadian border
James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of suspected Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, are expected to be arraigned Saturday and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
The charges to James and Jennifer Crumbley come after it was revealed the handgun Ethan Crumbley is accused of using in the shooting Tuesday, a 9mm Sig Sauer SP 2022 pistol, was purchased four days earlier on Black Friday by James Crumbley. Other evidence, including social media posts and text messages were cited by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald as evidence for the charges
Four students died and seven other people were injured in the mass shooting.
Ethan Crumbley faces four counts of first-degree murder, terrorism, and firearm possession charges and was charged as an adult.
Nikolas Cruz is set to plead guilty to seventeen counts of murder that took place during the Parkland School shooting in Florida in 2018. According to his lawyers Nikolas Cruz who was nineteen years old at the time of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School which left fourteen students and three adults dead will plead guilty and the only thing remains is the punishment phase which will be either life in prison without parole or the death penalty
Nikolas Cruz who on Friday October 15 plead guilty to an assault on a correctional guard has offered to plead guilty to the seventeen counts of murder in the past however for whatever the reason prosecutors wanted him to go to trial. I imagine the main focus on the punishment phase is going to be the teen killers mental health history
-October 2022 – Nikolas Cruz sentenced to life in prison
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The gunman accused of killing 14 students and three members of staff at a high school in Florida back in 2018 will plead guilty to their murders, his lawyers have said.
The guilty plea by Nikolas Cruz will set up a penalty phase in which he would be fighting against the death penalty and hoping for life without parole.
The now 23-year-old is accused of 17 counts of first-degree murder, 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder and attacking a jail guard nine months after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
His lawyers have said he will plead guilty to all of the offences.
The pleas will come with no conditions and prosecutors still plan to seek the death penalty – but this will be decided by a jury and the trial has not yet been scheduled.Advertisement
Nikolas Cruz and his lawyers have long offered to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence but prosecutors have repeatedly rejected the deal, saying the case deserves a death sentence.
The shooting shook Parkland, an upper-middle-class community outside Fort Lauderdale with little crime, back in 2018.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a campus of 3,200 students, is one of the top-ranked public schools in the state, and Nikolas Cruz had been a long-time troubled student there.
Since pre-school, he had been treated for emotional problems and was known by neighbours for torturing animals.
He alternated between traditional schools and those for troubled students, joining the successful high school from the 10th grade.
But his troubles remained, and he was expelled about a year before the attack after numerous incidents of unusual behaviour and at least one fight.
He began posting pictures online of himself with guns and made videos threatening to commit violence, including at the school.
It was around this time he purchased the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle he would use in the shooting.
When Cruz’s mother died of pneumonia in November 2017, leaving him and his brother orphaned, he began staying with friends taking his 10 guns with him.
Someone worried about his emotional state, called the FBI a month before the shooting to warn agents he might kill people – but this information was never forwarded to the agency’s South Florida office.
In the weeks before the shooting, Nikolas Cruz began making videos saying he was going to be the “next school shooter of 2018” and in one shortly before the massacre, he said: “Today is the day. Today it all begins. The day of my massacre shall begin.”
The shooting happened on Valentine’s Day, minutes before the end of the school day.
Cruz, who was 19 at the time, arrived at the campus that afternoon in an Uber, assembled his rifle in a bathroom and then opened fire at students and staff.
Nikolas Cruz trial has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and arguments between the prosecution and defence over what evidence and testimony should be presented to the jury.
Some victims’ families had expressed frustration over the delays but the president of the group they formed expressed relief that the case now seems closer to resolution.
“We just hope the system gives him justice,” said Tony Montalto, of Stand With Parkland. His 14-year-old daughter, Gina, died in the shooting.
Preparations were being made to begin jury selection within the next few months, with the decision by Cruz and his attorneys to plead guilty arriving unexpectedly.
Nikolas Cruz had been set to go on trial next week for the attack on the Boward County jail guard
A jury has recommended that the shooter who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., be sentenced to life in prison.
Nikolas Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to 17 charges of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. The question facing jurors now was whether Cruz would spend the rest of his life in prison or be sentenced to death.
Cruz carried out the massacre on Valentine’s Day in 2018. He was 19 at the time, and had been expelled from the school. He entered a school building through an unlocked side door and used an AR-15-style rifle to kill 14 students and three staff members, as well as wound 17 others.
Jurors began deliberations on Wednesday. Late that day, the jury asked to see the murder weapon. On Thursday morning, the jury said it had come to a recommendation on a sentence, about 15 minutes after the jurors were able to examine the weapon, according to The Associated Press.
Prosecutors had pushed for the death sentence. In closing arguments Tuesday, lead prosecutor Mike Satz told jurors that Cruz had hunted his victims during his siege of the school, returning to some of those he’d wounded to shoot them again, and kill them.
“This plan was goal directed, it was calculated, it was purposeful and it was a systematic massacre,” Satz said.
NPR’s Greg Allen has been covering the trial in Fort Lauderdale.
“Over the trial’s six months, jurors heard students and teachers who survived the shooting describe the attack. They heard graphic testimony from medical examiners and viewed surveillance videos showing Cruz firing into classrooms and hallways, shooting some victims repeatedly,” Allen reported.
In laying out their defense, lawyers for Cruz presented testimony from counselors and a doctor who say the defendant suffers from a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a condition that they argued affects his reasoning and behavior. Witnesses testified that his birth mother, Brenda Woodard, had abused alcohol and cocaine while she was pregnant with him.
“You now know that Nikolas is a brain-damaged, broken, mentally-ill person, through no fault of his own,” Cruz’s lawyer, Melissa McNeil, stated in closing arguments. “He was literally poisoned in Brenda’s womb.”
For Cruz to receive the death penalty, the sentence needed to be agreed upon by all 12 jurors.
Cruz’s rampage is the deadliest mass shooting to go to trial in the U.S., according to The Associated Press. In other attacks in which 17 or more people were killed, the shooter was either killed by police or died by suicide. Still awaiting trial is the suspect in the 2019 shooting of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
James Wilson was sentenced to death by the State of South Carolina for a school shooting that left two students dead. According to court documents James Wilson would enter Oakland Elementary School where he would kill Shequila Bradley and Tequila Thomas, both eight years old. Seven other students were injured as well as two teachers. James Wilson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Ellie Hodge smiled at the shooter as he walked in.
The first-grade teacher sat across from one of her students, keeping a watchful eye on the bustling cafeteria. A hundred students sat at their tables, eating their lunches that September afternoon in 1988.
“I thought he was a parent,” Hodge said, still incredulous years later at her naivete.”A young parent, but I was new.”
It was her sixth week at Oakland Elementary School. She didn’t know all the parents yet. So, she smiled.
That’s when 19-year-old James Wilson Jr. opened fire.
Hodge doesn’t remember the gun; she only remembers being shot. The bullet entered the side of her hand. The student across the table looked at her, wide-eyed. Hodge, confused, thought the little boy had thrown a ketchup packet at her.
Back then, the term “school shooting” didn’t exist. It was unimaginable, which is why it took Hodge a moment to realize the situation.
Then she started to scream for students to run.
Lashonda Burt sat further down Hodge’s table when the chaos began. The 7-year-old was shot and immediately blacked out. When she came to, she searched for her teacher.
“I remember Miss Hodge waving at me to come to her,” Burt-Reeder, now married and still living in Greenwood, said. “She was actually shot again in that moment.”
The second bullet entered Hodge’s right shoulder and lodged in her left, bypassing her spine by millimeters.
A cafeteria employee pulled Hodge, Lashonda, and another student into a cafeteria freezer. Hodge told the children to run. Lashonda fled out a side door with other kids, not realizing she had been shot until someone saw the blood on her clothing.
“When I looked down at my arm and my shirt, I saw all the blood,” she said, recalling the moments before she passed out again.
Inside the building, Wilson reloaded the handgun – a nine-shot .22 caliber revolver he stole from his grandparents – in a bathroom down the hall from the cafeteria.
He soon moved to a third-grade classroom and began shooting, killing eight-year old Shequila Bradley and injuring six others, including Tequila Thomas.
Tequila would never regain consciousness.
Shots, then panic
Across town, Chief Jim Coursey sat in his office at the Greenwood Police Department. The scanner crackled as he spoke with a SLED agent. The chief’s ears perked up.
“I remember telling him, ‘I got to go, there’s been a shooting at one of my schools,” Coursey said.
Maj. Urban Mitchell heard the same call in his car as he drove around town. He arrived within seconds on the school grounds, which had filled with dozens of cars and frantic parents.
Three decades later, Maj. Mitchell marvels at how quickly ordinary people arrived at the scene.
“Believe it or not, word had still gotten out, and there were parents arriving just immediately after I got there,” he said.
Mitchell rushed around the back of the school where he found another investigator holding Wilson at gunpoint. The officer had captured the shooter after he climbed out a bathroom window. The police chief drove up as the two took Wilson into custody.
Both describe the scene as chaotic; sheriff’s deputies and SLED agents rushing in, teachers and children bleeding, parents screaming for answers.
Telephone calls heightened the madness; parents who didn’t make it to the scene frantically called the school. A secretary from SLED, along with Coursey’s personal assistant, came to Oakland Elementary and helped answer the calls.
“To hear that panic,” Mitchell said, trailing off in thought. He then summed it up in one word: “Unbelievable.”
A close-knit community that still remembers
The names of Shequila Bradley and Tequila Thomas are etched into granite markers in a small memorial garden behind the school, which now bears the name Eleanor S. Rice Elementary in honor of the principal who guided the school out of the tragedy.
The town renamed the school in her honor after she died in 2010. A plaque outside the school’s front office describes Rice’s leadership in the shooting’s aftermath as “heroic.” Coursey doesn’t know what the town would have done without her guidance.
September 26, 2018, will mark 30 years since Wilson opened fire and took Shequila and Tequila from this world. Wilson had no ties to Oakland Elementary. He lived with his grandparents, and relatives described him as a “hyper-recluse” to The State newspaper. He is incarcerated on death row at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia.
In those three decades, not much has changed about the city of Greenwood. It currently has 23,222 residents and counting, with major chains and stores in its center, up from its 21,613 population in 1980. Tiny shops line Main Street in an renovated arts and culture district now known as Uptown Greenwood. Their owners remember customers’ names, their food orders and family ties.
“It’s a close-knit community,” Mitchell said.
It’s a community that still remembers the two youngsters who lost their lives and those who still carry psychic wounds from that day.
One Greenwood business owner teared up as he talked about Kat Finkbeiner, the physical education teacher who confronted Wilson as he reloaded in the bathroom. When she tried to stop him, he shot her in the mouth and hand.
Finkbeiner survived and was hailed as a hero.
Even three decades later, those who witnessed the aftermath of the shooting continue to live with the effects.
“This was a bad day,” Coursey said. He took a moment to collect himself before he admitted, “I still dream about it.”
Coursey, now retired after six years on the force, calls himself “a big Second Amendment person,” but he isn’t blind to the issue of guns in American society.
“What’s happening now…we’ve got to make some changes,” he said.
Hodge said she struggles to listen to news about the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida that claimed the lives of 17 students. She has physical reminders: her left hand that fails to make a closed fist, and her PTSD that overrides her senses from time to time.
For the most part, however, Hodge can remember the tragedy without issue.
“It helps to talk about it,” she said.
Burt-Reeder flinches every time there is a call from her children’s school in the middle of the day. Her shoulder aches from time to time, but she views it as a reminder; if she hadn’t been eating at the time of the shot, the bullet would have gone through her neck.
Emotions run high whenever another school shooting leads the national news. There is a sense of being forgotten, the name of Oakland Elementary School lost in the modern wave of school shooting tragedies.
Even if the rest of the world forgets, Greenwood can’t.
“I forgive him for it, but I will never forget that he did that to me,” Burt-Reeder said.
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