TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025 

This ruling, first and foremost, reaffirms basic truths: On November 30, 2021, the shooter murdered Madisyn Baldwin, Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, and Justin Shilling, he wounded seven others, and he terrorized an entire community. The shooter had his day in court. A judge weighed the severity of his crimes and rendered a fair sentence.

This tragedy was completely avoidable. As Judge Kwame Rowe said at sentencing, the shooter had multiple opportunities to make different decisions. He did not. His parents too had multiple opportunities to prevent the shooting. They did not. As a society, we must start treating gun violence like the public health crisis that it is.

I will never stop fighting for Madisyn, Tate, Hana, Justin, and the other Oxford victims.

- Karen McDonald, Oakland County Prosecutor