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"...Oxford was also adjusting to the awful new reality that it had become the latest host of an American school shooting, the deadliest since the spring of 2018. The deep sense of peace and safety in this close-knit village has been at least temporarily shattered, residents said, while anger at the accused and questions about how the school handled Crumbley’s behavior ripples through the community.
The nerves were vivid Friday night in downtown Oxford, where hundreds of people held candles and exchanged embraces at a vigil in honor of the deceased students and seven others injured in the shooting. The county executive was speaking from a stage about the other victims of the tragedy — the 1,700 students and staff who were forced to flee and take shelter — when shouts emerged from one section of the gathering. Suddenly, fear gripped the crowd. Everyone began to run.
...Smith, a quality-control manager at a mining company, was at work near Detroit when he heard there was an active shooter at the high school. The race north to Oxford, about 45 miles away, was “one of the most frantic, desperate experiences” he had ever had, he said. Smith found his daughter and her friend huddled in the woods across the street from the school, sobbing and shaking. Days later, Smith said, his daughter and her friends remain easily startled and unsure how they will return to the scene of such a traumatic experience. And Smith, while devastated for the families who lost their children, said he feels mad — at James and Jennifer Crumbley, but also at school administrators and about Michigan gun laws he says are too lax.
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Gun culture is a sickness that effects the whole community.
The nerves were vivid Friday night in downtown Oxford, where hundreds of people held candles and exchanged embraces at a vigil in honor of the deceased students and seven others injured in the shooting. The county executive was speaking from a stage about the other victims of the tragedy — the 1,700 students and staff who were forced to flee and take shelter — when shouts emerged from one section of the gathering. Suddenly, fear gripped the crowd. Everyone began to run.
...Smith, a quality-control manager at a mining company, was at work near Detroit when he heard there was an active shooter at the high school. The race north to Oxford, about 45 miles away, was “one of the most frantic, desperate experiences” he had ever had, he said. Smith found his daughter and her friend huddled in the woods across the street from the school, sobbing and shaking. Days later, Smith said, his daughter and her friends remain easily startled and unsure how they will return to the scene of such a traumatic experience. And Smith, while devastated for the families who lost their children, said he feels mad — at James and Jennifer Crumbley, but also at school administrators and about Michigan gun laws he says are too lax.
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Gun culture is a sickness that effects the whole community.
