A Michigan 15-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan where four students were killed and multiple people were injured.

During the rampage, a freshman recorded a group of students huddled together in a classroom when there was a knock on the door.

"Sheriff's office. It's safe to come out," a person on the other side of the door said. But a student inside the room said, "We're not willing to take that risk right now."

The voice outside the classroom continued, "Open the door. It's all right, bro."

That appeared to make the students nervous.

"He said bro, red flag," a boy said, prompting the group to escape through a window.

The video was widely shared on social media and some users identified the person at the door as the shooter.

"School Shooter pretending to be a Sherrif (sic). I don' trust Oxford schools anymore," read a post on TikTok.

But that's inaccurate, according to USA Today. The person outside the classroom was an official from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.

"We have now been able to determine that was not the suspect," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said during a news conference the day after the shooting. "More than likely, it was one of our plainclothes detectives, and he may have been (saying) 'bro' in a conversational manner to try to bring them down from the crisis."

Bouchard said, based on surveillance video from the school, the alleged shooter never knocked on doors or...

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