School lockdown drills have become common — experts say they could be better
Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.
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Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.
Law enforcement took more than an hour to get inside the classroom and kill the gunman, even as children inside the classrooms called 911, begging police to rescue them.
The mother of the Oxford High School shooter is headed to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges.
The Justice Department's report points to "cascading failures" by the police chief and other law enforcement responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 4, 2022.
Principal Dan Marburger was critically wounded during a Jan. 4 attack when a 17-year-old shooter opened fire at Perry High School, killing a student and injuring several others.
A teenager who killed four other students at a Michigan school will listen to their families and survivors of the mass shooting before a judge decides whether the attack will carry a life prison sentence.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed legislation barring individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing firearms for at least an eight-year-period.
A teenager who killed four students at Michigan's Oxford High School will be sentenced to life in prison.
A fourth and final day of testimony is expected in Michigan where a judge must decide whether a school shooter gets a life prison sentence or a chance for freedom some day.
A Michigan judge is expected to hear the third and final day of testimony Tuesday at a unique sentencing hearing for the Oxford High School shooter.
Several Metro Detroit school districts took part in an active shooter training in Livingston County Monday.
A panel of legal experts joined CBS News Detroit on Friday to review the first two days of the Miller hearing.
A teenager recalled Friday how she helped save a girl who was severely wounded during a Michigan school shooting in 2021, telling a judge that she moved her to an empty classroom, applied pressure to stop the bleeding and prayed with her.
Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley will appear in court Friday for the second day of a Miller hearing ahead of his sentencing in the November 2021 shooting deaths of four students.
A 17-year-old girl testified Friday she "just prayed" and covered her head during the mass shooting at Oxford High School, which left four students dead and seven others wounded in 2021.
Prosecutors are making their case that a Michigan teenager should be sentenced to life in prison for killing four students at his high school in 2021.
Ethan Crumbley, 17, has pleaded guilty to murder, terrorism and other crimes at Oxford High School.
Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley will appear in court Thursday and Friday for a Miller hearing ahead of his sentencing in the November 2021 shooting deaths of four students.
Additional support will be offered for the Oxford community as Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley begins his Miller hearing Thursday.
A judge in Michigan must decide whether a teenager who killed four students at his school should spend his life in prison.
In Tennessee, a request for police to release a school shooter's private writings has morphed into a complex multiparty legal fight.
Prosecutors say a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan high school has been showing "disturbing behavior" while in jail.
Teachers surveyed also said active shooters are not their biggest concern.
Through their grief, the families of victims have found the strength to demand changes in gun laws, more school safety and greater accountability.
A group of families has won a key court victory in an effort to pin some responsibility on a Michigan school district for a shooting that left four students dead in 2021.
