OXFORD, MI - School bells were replaced by police sirens Tuesday after a shooting at Michigan's Oxford High School left four students dead.
Six other students and a teacher were wounded by gunfire, and a 15-year-old suspect is in custody and has been charged as an adult, authorities said.
The attack was the deadliest US school shooting since eight students and two teachers were slain in May 2018 at Texas' Santa Fe High School, according to a CNN tally. There have been 48 shootings this year on K-12 campuses, 32 of them since August 1.
What we know about the investigation
Investigators have a "tremendous amount of video footage" to review from cameras in the school, Bouchard said.
A search warrant was executed at Crumbley's home Tuesday, McCabe said. Authorities seized a phone and are examining other seized items, Bouchard said.
Authorities also are investigating pictures of a target and the weapon posted on social media by the suspect, he added.
Investigators found two videos on Crumbley's cell phone -- made the night before the shooting -- in which Crumbley talked about shooting and killing students at the high school, sheriff's Lt. Tim Willis said at the defendant's arraignment Wednesday.
In addition to the cell phone, a journal was recovered from Crumbley's backpack detailing his "desire to shoot up the school," Willis said.
Asked about what Crumbley's parents might have known about what he was writing or recording before the shooting, or about his accessing the new weapon, Bouchard said: "We don't have any information that they knew that this was a path he was headed. But ... that's very much an active investigation."
Video from the school shows the assailant was "shooting people at close range -- oftentimes toward the head or chest," Bouchard told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday.
"It's chilling. It's absolutely cold-hearted, murderous," he said.
During the arraignment, prosecutors said video from school surveillance cameras showed Crumbley with a backpack, and a minute later exiting a bathroom without the backpack and with a gun in hand.
Crumbley began firing outside the bathroom, prosecutor Marc Keast said. After students started running away, he proceeded down the hallway at a "methodical pace" and shot inside classrooms and at students who hadn't escaped, Keast said. That continued for another four or five minutes until he went to another bathroom, Keast said.
The video shows Crumbley "methodically and deliberately" walking the hallways, aiming a gun at students and firing, Keast said.
"What is depicted on that video, honestly judge, I don't have the words to describe how horrific that was," Keast said.
When deputies arrived, he set down the gun and surrendered, authorities said.
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