The sheriff of Michigan’s Oakland County said that his office would have taken action if Oxford High School officials included resource officers in meetings with the parents of an alleged 15-year-old school shooter that left four people dead last week.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, responding to a statement from Oxford school superintendent Tim Throne that the school hadn’t reached the point where it would discipline alleged gunman Ethan Crumbley, said that resource officers should be been involved.“In terms of school discipline, he may be right, but at the point—and certainly in the second meeting in the second day … we would have very much wanted our school resource officer in on that meeting,” the sheriff told local media last week.
The officer “would have taken protocols we have in place to have [the suspect] removed from the school until action has happened. For example, the school told him he had to be in counseling, we would have had him removed from school until that happened,” Bouchard said.
Bouchard added that his office also would have “made sure [the shooting suspect] had no access to weapons.”The comments come as the parents of Crumbley, Jennifer and James Crumbley, were arrested and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Their son is already being held on four counts of homicide and other charges.
