A Michigan teenager calmly confessed in court docket on Monday to killing 4 fellow college students and injuring seven others throughout a capturing rampage at his highschool final November.

{The teenager}, Ethan Crumbley, answered, “Sure, sir,” to a collection of questions posed to him by Choose Kwame Rowe as he pleaded responsible to 24 counts, together with homicide, tried homicide, terrorism and weapons violations, stemming from the capturing at Oxford Excessive Faculty.

Because the households of victims listened within the crowded Oakland County courtroom, the defendant, now 16, additionally made a disclosure that would play a job in his dad and mom’ pending prison case on expenses of involuntary manslaughter: The gun, he mentioned, “was not locked.”

The protection attorneys for {the teenager}’s dad and mom, James and Jennifer Crumbley, weren’t instantly out there for remark. However they’d beforehand mentioned that the gun was secured. The dad and mom have pleaded not responsible.

Whereas it’s uncommon for folks to be prosecuted in reference to their kids’s crimes, Karen D. McDonald, the Oakland County prosecutor, mentioned final 12 months that the Crumbleys’ conduct led her to a choice to prosecute them, regardless of the uphill authorized battle.

Ethan Crumbley additionally mentioned in the course of the listening to on Monday that he had requested his father to buy the semiautomatic 9-millimeter Sig Sauer handgun used within the Oxford faculty capturing for him. Beforehand, the gun had been described as an early Christmas current. However in court docket, {the teenager} mentioned that he had given his father the cash for the gun, which was bought on Nov. 26, 4 days earlier than the capturing.

The defendant admitted on Monday to murdering Tate Myre, 16; Justin Shilling, 17; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and Hana St. Juliana, 14, in addition to injuring seven different individuals, together with six college students and a trainer.

He appeared in court docket beneath heavy safety, sporting orange prisoners’ garb issued by the Oakland County Jail, the place he has been held for the previous 12 months. Visibly taller than he was final 12 months, with longer hair, he confirmed that no guarantees had been made to him. He faces as much as life in jail with out parole, however his sentencing won’t happen till subsequent 12 months.

His dad and mom, who weren’t within the courtroom, are being held individually in the identical facility.

Attorneys for {the teenager} had indicated in January that their consumer had deliberate to pursue an madness protection, a tough plea to show beneath Michigan regulation. Then final week, prosecutors mentioned that he would enter a responsible plea to all counts.

It was additionally confirmed in the course of the listening to on Monday that the defendant had hid his new gun in a backpack the day of the capturing, together with 50 rounds of ammunition. At round midday, he loaded the gun in a college restroom and emerged capturing.

Earlier within the day, his dad and mom had been known as to highschool.

A steerage counselor testified in hearings earlier this 12 months that he had summoned the couple and urged them to hunt counseling for his or her son, who had been found in school with violent drawings of a gun, a bloody determine and the phrases “assist me” and “my life is ineffective.”

The dad and mom had been the topic of an intense manhunt after they failed to show themselves in to face expenses. They had been taken into custody in a business constructing in Detroit, the place the police mentioned they’d gave the impression to be hiding.