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DETROIT — An Oxford High School student who killed four classmates and injured seven others and a teacher showed emotion for the first time during a hearing Friday to determine if he'll be sentenced to life without parole in prison as his former vice principal testified about how he killed Tate Myre. Ethan Crumbley pursed his lips as tears began dripping down his face when Oxford High School Assistant Principal Kristy Gibson-Marshall sobbed during her testimony about her attempts to save Tate, who she had known since he was 3. She took his pulse and checked his vitals before trying to get his ......

DETROIT — An Oxford High School student who killed four classmates and injured seven others and a teacher showed emotion for the first time during a hearing Friday to determine if he'll be sentenced to life without parole in prison as his former vice principal testified about how he killed Tate Myre. Ethan Crumbley pursed his lips as tears began dripping down his face when Oxford High School Assistant Principal Kristy Gibson-Marshall sobbed during her testimony about her attempts to save Tate, whom she had known since he was 3. She took his pulse and checked his vitals before trying to get his......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Growing up, Joaquin “Guac” Oliver was “always worried about community issues,” recalled his mother, Patricia Oliver. “(He worried) about his friends, about immigration, about social issues,” she said. “... When Joaquin was 12 years old, he was able to write a project about (firearm purchase) background checks, when he just was 12 years old. He was posting on Twitter, he was tweeting about all that happened in Sandy Hook.” In February 2018, Joaquin was one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland. His parents, Patricia and her husb......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One teen is dead and five other people were wounded following a house party that was broken up by police near the campus of Chico State University early Saturday morning. Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge said a 17-year-old girl was killed and five others were wounded with injuries not considered life-threatening on the 1000 block of Columbus Avenue, less than a mile west of the campus. Chico State spokesman Andrew Staples said none of the victims were Chico State students. He said the university is continuing to monitor the situation. Gayle Hutchinson, Chico State’s presi......

White House press secretary Karine Jean Pierre on Monday pushed back on Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s claim that President Joe Biden politicized the shooting of a 16-year-old high school student in Kansas City who rang the wrong doorbell. “What the president is doing is trying to protect families and communities across the country,” Jean Pierre said. “That’s the action this president has taken the past two years, doing almost two dozen actions and executive orders to make sure that we are taking steps to stop the epidemic we are seeing with gun violence. And that’s what he should do as president......

Metropolitan Nashville police Officer Rex Engelbert believed March 27 would be an average day at work, but by that afternoon, he had been declared a hero. Engelbert was part of a team of officers that took down a shooter who had killed six people — including three children — inside The Covenant School. At a news conference this week, Engelbert slowly and solemnly detailed the actions he took to help stop the shooter, identified by police as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. Hale died as a result of the shots fired by Engelbert and others. After first offering condolences to the families of the victims,......