Shaken parents rushed to a local grocery store to reunite with their children. Students described frantically hiding in classrooms and fleeing from the school after long minutes of terror.
The rampage at Oxford High School, north of Detroit in Oakland County, was the deadliest shooting on school property this year, according to Education Week, which tracks such shootings and has reported 28 of them in 2021.
“I was just kind of sitting there shaking,” said Dale Schmalenberg, 16, who said he was in calculus class when his teacher heard a gunshot and locked down the classroom. The only adult who was shot, a 47-year-old teacher, had been discharged from a hospital. The injured students ranged in age from 14 to 17, officials said, including three who were in critical condition and another who was in serious condition. Juliana, 14 Madisyn Baldwin, 17 and Tate Myre, 16, who died in a sheriff’s squad car while on the way to a hospital. The authorities identified the dead as Hana St. Within five minutes, the authorities said, a 15-year-old sophomore at the school had shot 11 people, killing three of his fellow students and leaving others with critical injuries. Students at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit rushed for cover and barricaded classroom doors with chairs when they heard the first gunshots on Tuesday afternoon. Ultimately, we will get to the bottom of this.”Īiden Page, a senior at Oxford High School in the Detroit suburbs, recalled the panic after a student opened fire there. I can’t confirm whether it’s true or not. You know, because of social media, there’s a lot of stuff out there. I hope that we can all rise to the occasion and wrap our arms around the families, the affected children and school personnel.” “My heart goes out to the families enduring the unimaginable grief of losing a loved one.” “We’re hearing all kinds of rumors about warning signs. Deputies responded and within five minutes had the suspect in custody.” “I think this is every parent’s worst nightmare. I had tears in my eyes.” “At about 12:51, we had over a hundred 911 calls into our dispatch center of an active shooter at the Oxford High School. Once I realized he wasn’t joking, it was, it was terrifying. It didn’t seem like something that would be happening. I honestly do not feel good about having to do that, so having to do that definitely made me safer and feel safer in the class.” “He was texting, and at first I thought he was joking. We’ve discussed this multiple times in our school. My first texts were like, if - ‘I love you, if I die.’ I basically helped barricade. I have a little sister who goes to my school, so I was texting to see if she was OK. “I was texting my family, texting friends, seeing if they were OK. Transcript Student Recounts Deadly Michigan School Shooting Aiden Page, a senior at Oxford High School in the Detroit suburbs, recalled the panic after a student opened fire there.