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Ethan Crumbley has pleaded guilty to murdering 4 students at a Michigan school

The 16-year-old pleaded guilty to all 24 charges, nearly a year after the attack at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan. He withdrew his intent to pursue an insanity defense.

PONTIAC, Mich. — A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students and put an extraordinary focus on the boy's home life and the alleged role of his parents in the tragedy.

Ethan Crumbley, 16, pleaded guilty to all 24 charges, nearly a year after the attack at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan. In the gallery, some relatives of the victims wept as assistant prosecutor Marc

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