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Michigan school shooter sentenced to life in prison for killing four students

Source: Family handout/Comp

Ethan Crumbley was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars during a hearing in which he addressed loved ones of the four Michigan high school students he killed two years ago.

Family members of the four students killed at Oxford High School on 30 November 2021 gave heart-wrenching victim impact statements during an emotional hearing at an Oakland County courtroom on Friday. Judge Kwamé Rowe then handed down a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

The shooter killed Madisyn Baldwin, 17, Tate Myre, 16, Hana St Juliana, 14, and Justin Shilling, 17, at the school in Oxford Township, about 40 miles north of Detroit. Six other students and a teacher also were wounded.

The shooter had pleaded guilty to all 24 charges in the shooting, including first-degree murder and terrorism. Because Crumbley was 15 at the time of the shooting, there was also a possibility that he

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