Some Ethan Crumbley murder case questions.

They aren’t illegal.

Tolerance in schools!

The administrators and the school cops are in charge of that.
It’s the parents choice first in a lot of cases.

"The thoughts won't stop. Help me."

may be how they live their everyday lives. Seizing the opportunity to most immediately escape the school, to not get caught, their getaway. They found an out and took it. The school didn't catch them this time either.

"They have a checkered past, and are well known to the authorities."

I haven't heard that the kid made any verbal threats to anybody in the school. I believe that there has to be a 'credible threat' to remove a kid from school against the parents' wishes.

I've read there were 2 police officers in the building... why didn't they search his backpack & pockets?

While this sociopath would be very likely have violently erupted at some future point, had this been handled ethically & responsibly, given what the teachers saw, the tragedy that day could easily have been avoided imo.

Why this kid wasn't searched, isolated with a crisis response team & prohibited from setting foot on school grounds again without a full psych eval is beyond me.

I had a client whose teach caught graphic images & a "hit list" some yrs ago. Guess who got an immediate ride with lights to a psych ward for eval? This was an elementady grade student.

My initial (silent) response was holy fucking shit! Not on my watch you won't! How anyone entrusted with kids could react so casually is beyond my comprehension & is so far outside the bounds of ethical, I don't even know what to call it.

let him go back to class? They should have sent him home and not let him back without the therapy they discussed.

...and the parents just said "go to class, we'll pick you up later, don't worry about what those people said, be more careful." The school didn't know or were unaware of this (big school, kid splits off, no one is watching him, etc).

Remember, the mom got contacted about the kid searching for ammo online, and told him to be more careful and not get caught. From her perspective her kid was good for looking up ammo online for his gun. Proud of him even. This was a gun nutter family completely deluded about their kids psychopathic writings and comments.

That being said, they should have searched his backpack, think it's standard procedure in any case like this.

Remember a few weeks ago (months?) a little girl was arrested for drawing a mean picture of a kid who was bullying her?

Oh, wait, little Black girl, white teenager...of course.

After all, he might have needed it to protect the school from an Antifa mob! Purely in self-defense, of course…

been the correct plan for all concerned.

i'm just guessing that this school has more counselors than cops. unlike the schools where i live.

The police didn't even need to be called, there was a school resource officer embedded at the school (Sheriffs deputy), all the administrators needed to do was include him in the meeting with the parents and there likely would have been a very different outcome. Major screwup on the part of the school.

Sheesh...