Michigan Town Wants To Rename H.S. Football Stadium After the 16 Year-Old Who Tried To Stop Shooter
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The citizens of Pontiac, Michigan where the horrific high-school shooting massacre took place Tuesday are petitioning to rename the Oxford High School Wildcat Football Stadium after shooting victim Tate Myre who attempted to disarm the killer.
The New York Times: 15 year-old Ethan Crumbley walked into a school bathroom carrying a backpack and emerged with a handgun. He began firing, killing four students and wounding seven people in the deadliest school shooting this year.
Mr. Crumbley fired more than 30 rounds as terrified students raced for safety and locked themselves inside classroom doors barricaded by desks, the authorities said. He still had 18 rounds in his possession when he was apprehended, they said.
The toll of the shooting grew on Wednesday after a fourth student, Justin Shilling, 17, died at about 10 a.m. at McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Mich., according to the sheriff’s office.
The other students killed were Hana St. Juliana, 14; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and Tate Myre, 16, who died in a sheriff’s squad car while on the way to a hospital.
[Crumbley} was charged with terrorism, four counts of first-degree murder and an array of other charges.
Prosecutors said they were also considering charges against the suspect’s parents. The authorities said Mr. Crumbley carried out the shooting in a Detroit suburb using a handgun his father had bought four days earlier.
Tate Myre was a linebacker and tight end on the school’s football team and had recently earned an all-region award from the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association. He died on Tuesday in a patrol car as the authorities rushed him to a hospital. By Wednesday, an online petition to rename the school’s stadium in his honor had more than 67,000 signatures.
He was described by his classmates as incredibly well liked, funny and intelligent.
The petition is addressed to the school and aims to change the name of the soccer stadium to Tate Myre Stadium.
The petition aims to collect 75,000 signatures, of which more than 54,580 were collected in just 19 hours.
