The morning of the shooting, the teenage suspect was “seen watching violent videos of shootings,” the filing said.
The filing also alleges the teenager had “tortured animals” and cited an occasion in which a baby bird’s head was discovered in a jar in his bedroom. The jar with the head was later found in a bathroom at Oxford High School, roughly 40 miles north of Detroit, where the shooting occurred Nov. 30, the filing states.
Prosecutors said the suspect “gave the clearest sign of all” that he intended to commit violence: a drawing of a gun and the words “the thoughts won’t stop help me” and “blood everywhere” on what appears to be a school worksheet. The filing includes a photo of the worksheet, as well as a second photo where the gun and some of the words are scratched out.
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