
"Quelling school threats is going to take the work of all of us," she said. She said she recently sent letters about the problem to Detroit's newspapers and other news media outlets. Worthy added that, since 2018, her office has tried to educate parents and students about the risks of such behavior, with warnings translated into five languages. Wednesday, her office charged a 14-year-old boy in Wyandotte, a 15-year-old boy in Detroit, a 17-year-old girl in Detroit and a 16-year-old boy in Detroit with threatening violence against schools. 'So egregious': Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect charged. Much has been written about these types of cases lately, yet still these serious events continue to happen," Worthy said. "We have charged 18 youth in the last few days with crimes relating to school threats.

In Wayne County, which includes Detroit, similar cases followed the deadly shooting at Oxford High school, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. "Students who think this (is) a way to be funny, or gain some kind of recognition from their classmates, are making a very big mistake (and) it is imperative that parents have a serious conversation with their children," Underwood said in the release. Both were charged with knowingly making a false threat of terrorism, which could carry 20 years in prison, according to Underwood. Both students had hearings pending Thursday.Īlso in Waterford, two middle school students, who were taken into custody earlier this week after allegedly making threats, made recent court appearances. In another case, an eighth-grade student indicated a type of gun and time and location when saying, "if I was a school shooter," and mimicking shooting, the statement added. Personalized copies available via her e-mail.An eighth-grade student told another student that he brought a gun to school and mimicked shooting the gun with his hand, the statement said.

Her book, The Big 50: The Detroit Red Wings is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Triumph Books. James at Follow her on Twitter Read more on the Detroit Red Wings and sign up for our Red Wings newsletter. My heart goes out to everybody involved, everybody at the school, the community. “I think it is insane that this is somewhat normal. Nothing I say certainly can do anything to help those that suffered the tragedy, that lost their lives.

“I just want to send out my prayers to the families that were affected today in Oxford,” he said.

Our thoughts are with Oxford, Michigan.”īlashill, who has three children and whose father worked as a police officer in Detroit, was near tears. We feel awful about the tragedy that happened. “We’re thinking about the victims and the entire community. “It hit us hard, it hit guys in the room hard,” he said. Larkin - who is from Waterford, about a dozen miles from Oxford - described the atmosphere in the locker room as the afternoon wore on. News of the event broke a little after 2 p.m., and players found out as they woke from their pre-game naps. Police took a suspected shooter into custody and there were multiple victims, the Oakland County Sheriff's office said. Oxford High School students who were present during the school shooting stand during a prayer vigil at LakePoint Community Church in Oxford following an active shooter situation at Oxford High School in Oxford on November 30, 2021.
