Baltimore Teen Threatened To Shoot Up Michigan School: Police

OXFORD, MI — A Maryland teenager was arrested after officials said he threatened to shoot up Oxford High School in Michigan, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.

The 17-year-old from Baltimore was arrested in connection to the threats last Thursday and charged in Maryland juvenile court with multiple crimes, including threats of mass harm and improper use of a telephone, officials said.

Officers did not find any firearms inside the teen's home "and he had no means to carry out the threat," said Michael Bouchard, sheriff in Oakland County, Michigan.

"We will work to hold anyone, anywhere, accountable for threats they make against our community," Bouchard said. "In this case, we partnered with the Maryland State Police to do just that. I thank our team for its swift work and thank the Maryland State Police for their partnership to run this down."

Officials within the Oakland County Sheriff's Office alerted Maryland Police after receiving a tip from the OK2Say tip line from Michigan State Police, officials said.

The teen made threatening phone calls to multiple people and Oxford High School students, including a 39-year-old woman from Oxford Township and three 14-year-old students, on Aug. 14, officials said.

In one of the calls, the Baltimore teen told one of the 14-year-old students he was going to shoot up the school and then the student was going to be shot next, officials said.

The teen also made inappropriate sexual comments to at least one of the students and a woman, according to police.

Detectives do not believe the threats were related to the Nov. 30, 2021, Oxford school shooting where four students were fatally shot and seven others were injured. The four students killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Hana St. Juliana, 16-year-old Tate Myre, 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin and 17-year-old Justin Shilling.

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Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time and a student at the school, pleaded guilty in the shooting to 24 counts, including four counts of premeditated first-degree murder and terrorism. A judge will decide if Crumbley can spend the rest of his life in prison on Sept. 29. Crumbley will then be sentenced on Dec. 8.

Ethan's parents, Jennifer and James Crumbley, were each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection to the deadly school shooting, making them the first parents ever charged in connection to a school shooting.

The Michigan Supreme Court is fielding an appeal from the couple to have the case thrown out after an Oakland County Judge ruled in March both parents can face trial on charges in connection to the deadly school shooting.

Patch editor Dylan Siwicki contributed to this report.