PONTIAC, Mich. — Day two of the high-stakes court hearing for the Oxford High School shooter took place Friday. The first day brought chilling new revelations from the investigation.
The Miller hearing will determine if a judge can sentence Ethan Crumbley, a minor, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The start of the hearing Thursday was a deep dive into the shooter's journal entries, detailing how he wanted to carry out the school shooting.
"I want to shoot up the f****** school so badly," he wrote in one of his entries.
The educator who was injured in the shooting, Molly Darnell, also took the witness stand on Thursday, explaining what happened on Nov. 30, 2021, after she locked eyes with the shooter before being shot.
"He was aiming to kill me," said Darnell.
She detailed her first thought when she saw the shooter with the gun outside her door, saying she realized there was no orange tip and that the threat was real.
When he fired the shots, she said they were physically loud and that she "could feel them coming through that door."
Defense attorneys want the judge to throw out the life without parole and are arguing his home environment and mental illness are factors to be considered.
Prosecutors had a plan to call detectives and survivors to the stand and show surveillance video from the devastating day.
One of the survivors who took the stand Friday was an assistant principal at Oxford High School, Kristy Gibson-Marshall. In her harrowing testimony, Gibson-Marshall recalls hearing gunshots, smelling gun powder, seeing the shooter and a victim.
"I kept walking towards him. I needed to help," Gibson-Marshall said about seeing the shooter. "There was a student on the ground."
“I rolled the student over and it was Tate Myre. I’ve known him since he was three. It was crushing. I had to hold him and save him for his mom,” she revealed while holding back tears.
Gibson-Marshall says she frantically began CPR and begged Myre to stay with her as another person helped her remove the backpack he was wearing at the time of the shooting.
“I could see the bullet exited through his eye, and an exit would at the back of his head. I started to take his pulse and check his vitals,” she recounted.
“I was telling them to keep giving breaths, he needs air. So much blood (breaking down). It was all over me, and it took months to get the taste of his blood out of my mouth.”
Nearly a dozen Oakland County deputies were seen crying during Gibson-Marshall's testimony in court Friday.
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Starting Friday, the “All For Oxford Resiliency Center," a program of Common Ground, will offer therapy dogs and extra support.
Their hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to help process emotions. Food will also be provided at their location. The address is 1370 S. Lapeer Road in Oxford.
