jennifer crumbley
A jury heard a frantic 911 call made in 2021 by James Crumbley, the father of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley.
A Michigan jury found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of manslaughter for failing to prevent her son's school shooting. Does this verdict set a dangerous precedent for parents?
Jennifer Crumbley and her husband are the first parents in the U.S. to be charged in a mass school shooting committed by their child.
“I don't want to say that I'm a victim because I don't want to disrespect those families that truly are the victims on this,” Jennifer Crumbley told the jury. “But we did lose a lot.”
WHAT'S HAPPENING
A school official said he found it "odd" that Jennifer Crumbley didn't take her son Ethan home after being shown a violent drawing he had scrawled on an assignment.
Defense attorney Shannon Smith said that Ethan Crumbley’s testimony would be related to “extraneous matters” and not the Nov. 30 shooting.
The counselor said on the morning of the shootings he told Ethan Crumbley's parents that he believed their son was a threat to himself and needed mental health support.
Jennifer Crumbley reportedly asked her son, Ethan, if he had showed teachers a “pic of your new gun,” an investigator testified Tuesday.
Following the fatal shooting of four students at a Michigan high school, the parents of the alleged shooter have been charged with multiple crimes.
James and Jennifer Crumbley entered not guilty pleas to each of the four involuntary manslaughter counts against them.