Police identify 4 victims who died in Oxford High School shooting
The victims of a deadly shooting rampage Tuesday at Oxford High School were teenagers, ranging in age from 14 to 17, and a 47-year-old teacher.
Three had died as of Tuesday night, said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. A fourth died Wednesday morning. They are:
Tate Myre, a 16-year-old football player, who died in a sheriff’s deputy's car en route to the hospital
Hana St. Juliana, 14
Madisyn Baldwin, 17
Justin Shilling, 17
Six more students were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, but were not named Tuesday.
"Tragically, we have a 14-year-old female who is in critical condition with chest and neck gunshot wounds," Bouchard said. "And she's currently on a ventilator after surgery. It's looking very tough for this young girl."
She was transferred from McLaren Hospital in Lapeer to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where she was in the pediatric intensive care unit, said Dr. Tressa Gardner, an emergency medicine physician for McLaren.
In addition, five other students were hospitalized Tuesday night. They are:
A 17-year-old girl in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest. She was being treated at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac.
A 14-year-old boy in serious condition with gunshot wounds to the jaw and hand. He was being treated at McLaren Hospital in Pontiac.
A 17-year-old girl who was stable with a gunshot wound to the neck. She was being treated at McLaren Hospital in Pontiac.
A 15-year-old boy who was stable with a gunshot wound to the left leg being treated at McLaren Hospital in Pontiac.
A 17-year-old boy who was stable with a gunshot wound to the hip being treated at Ascension Hospital in Rochester Hills.
A 47-year-old teacher was wounded in the mass shooting as well.
The teacher, Bouchard said, "has been thankfully discharged. She had a left shoulder gunshot wound that appears to have been a grazing wound."
In addition, Bouchard said there were "multiple" non-life-threatening injuries among other students.
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"As they were rushing out of the building, obviously evacuating, they got hurt," he said. "Most of them were treated and released."
As soon as the sheriff's office notified McLaren of the shooting, Gardner said the health system triggered its emergency trauma protocols.
"We established our incident command. We shut surgeries down, opened up OR (operating room) suites, called in our backup surgical teams, activated our ICU as well as additional nursing staffing," she said.
"People were available to come in. ... They came in, and I cannot celebrate them enough today. They are parents. They are grandparents. They live in the Oxford community. They were there for the victims today."
Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter said though 11 people were struck by bullets Tuesday, the entire community and the entire nation were wounded.
"Three precious teenagers have been taken from us and another seven students and a teacher were wounded, but in a larger sense there are no unwounded students or staff today," he said. "Everybody in the Oxford community, in Oakland County, and frankly, the United States, has been impacted by this tragedy.
"Tragedies like this way rip away at our security, a security and a peace that should be rightfully ours in a place like a school."
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Oxford High School shooting: Police identify victims