Judge orders Ethan Crumbley to stay in jail, reveals new details about teen – By Tresa Baldas (Detroit Free Press) / March 1, 2022
A judge on Tuesday ordered Ethan Crumbley to stay in jail pending the outcome of his murder case — and in doing so disclosed new details about the Oxford school shooting suspect.
In his opinion, Oakland County Circuit Judge Kwame Rowe noted that he reviewed text messages and journal entries by Ethan that showed the teenager had made Molotov cocktails and contemplated that he “may use the Molotov cocktails during the school shooting.”
In his journal, Ethan also wrote that he had once started a small fire in the woods, and that he killed eight baby birds “by slowly torturing them,” the judge wrote, noting that he also saw a video of Ethan torturing a baby bird to death.
