Ethan Crumbley’s sentencing for Oxford school shooting

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Oxford High School student Kylie Ossege gave a victim impact statement in court, recounting the day of the school shooting where she was injured. She described her initial shock, thinking a balloon had popped, the realization of being shot, and the time she spent lying on the ground next to 14-year-old victim Hana St. Juliana. Ossege detailed her injuries, which included a shattered clavicle, two broken ribs, and a spinal cord injury, her time in intensive care and rehabilitation, her ongoing treatment, and the long-term impacts on her daily life and activities.

Oxford High School Shooting: A Victim’s Harrowing Tale

For Kylie Ossege, an Oxford High School student, the day of the shooting began ordinarily. She assumed a “balloon popped” when she abruptly fell to the ground. “I heard screams and saw people running, but I couldn’t. I was shot. I thought I was going to die,” she recounted in her victim impact statement.

Ossege attempted to stand, but her legs failed to respond. As she lay on the blood-soaked carpet, she discovered Hana St. Juliana, a 14-year-old shooting victim, beside her. “I reassured her a thousand times that help would come and asked her to keep breathing,” Ossege said.

While on the floor, Ossege mentally recited her mother’s phone number and solved math problems to assert her brain was still functioning and she wasn’t dying. After the shooting, she spent a week in the intensive care unit (ICU) and five weeks in rehabilitation, relearning basic tasks like eating, dressing, walking, and climbing stairs.

The bullet had shattered her clavicle, broke two ribs, grazed her spine, causing a spinal cord injury. Ossege underwent surgeries and is still under treatment. Since the incident, she has been unable to play sports, return to her job, or walk long distances. Her body has lost the ability to regulate its temperature.

“My life has changed its path entirely,” Ossege stated.

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