A New Strategy for Prosecuting School Shootings

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Last week, after a shooting at Oxford High School in the suburbs of Detroit that left four teenagers dead, local prosecutors decided on a novel legal strategy that would extend criminal culpability beyond the 15-year-old accused of carrying out the attack. But could that strategy become a national model? Guest: Jack Healy, a national correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Habaro.
0:03.8	This is The Daily.
0:05.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Last week.
0:12.3	We are following the breaking news of a shooting at a high school in Oxford, Michigan,
0:16.3	outside of Detroit.
0:17.5	When the shooting was over at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit.
0:21.6	The four who lost their lives are 17-year-old Justin Schilling, 14-year-old Hannah St.
0:27.3	Giuliana, 17-year-old Madison Baldwin, and 16-year-old Take Myer.
0:32.4	The suspected shooter is a sophomore, 15-year-old classmate.
0:36.0	He is in custody this morning.
0:37.8	Local prosecutors decided on a novel legal strategy that would extend criminal culpability
0:44.4	beyond the gunman himself.
0:47.4	I spoke with my colleague, National Correspondent Jack Healy, about what's behind that strategy
0:54.0	and whether it could become a national model.
0:57.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:07.9	It's Tuesday, December 7th.
1:10.9	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:15.9	Jack, you have covered a depressingly large number of mass shootings.
1:21.0	And we know that because we've talked to you about a lot of them here on the daily.
1:25.4	So I'm curious what you were thinking when you learned about this latest shooting in
1:30.1	Michigan.
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