“At the meeting, James and Jennifer Crumbley were shown the drawing and were advised that they were required to get their son into counseling within 48 hours,” she said. Hours before the attack, he and his wife met with school officials who were concerned about their son’s behavior. Crumbley legally bought the 9-millimeter Sig Sauer handgun four days before his son used it to carry out the country’s deadliest school shooting this year. The mother allegedly wrote in a text to him after one report: "lol I'm not mad at you, you have to learn not to get caught" /BiR9VTu1U7- CBS News December 3, 2021
Prosecutor alleges parents of Oxford High School shooting suspect left gun unlocked and failed to take action on reports of disturbing behavior at school. Further down the drawing are the words, ‘My life is useless,’ and to the right of that are the words, ‘The world is dead.'” “Below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji. “Between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is a drawing of a person who appears to have been shot twice and bleeding,” she said. McDonald said the note was “a drawing of a semi-automatic handgun pointing at the words, ‘The thoughts won’t stop, help me.’ In another section of the note was a drawing of a bullet with the following words above that bullet, ‘Blood everywhere.'” However, according to the prosecutor, Jennifer Crumbley texted her son about the incident, writing, “lol, I’m not mad at you, you have to learn not to get caught.”Īccording to McDonald, the morning of the shooting, Ethan Crumbley’s teacher saw a note on his desk which alarmed her. The teen’s parents were called and emailed but they didn’t respond to school officials, she said. 21, a teacher saw Ethan Crumbley researching ammunition in class, the prosecutor said. If convicted of the four charges, the Crumbleys can face up to 15 years in prison. “While the shooter was the one who entered the high school and pulled the trigger, there were other individuals who contributed to the events,” McDonald said.
She said their actions went “far beyond negligence” and that Michigan law allowed her to pursue involuntary manslaughter charges against people who contributed to a situation where harm or death was high. Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said Jennifer and James Crumbley made their 9-mm semiautomatic handgun “freely available” to their 15-year-old son Ethan.
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Prosecutor seeks manslaughter charges against parents of Oxford school shooting suspect - Detroit Free Press December 3, 2021