Shooter Ethan Crumbley’s parents charged with involuntary manslaughter.
UPDATE: Police Search for Teen Suspect’s Parents Hours After Charges Announced
- Ethan Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, are now on the run from police after being charged with involuntary manslaughter.
- “Police have issued a ‘be on the lookout alert’ and dispatched fugitive teams to search for James and Jennifer Crumbley, who were charged Friday with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Tuesday’s deadly shooting and have until 4pm to turn themselves in. The charges carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison,” the Daily Mail reports.
- “FBI, Marshals and deputies hunt for parents of Ethan Crumbley as sheriff says Michigan prosecutor didn’t give them a head’s up about manslaughter charges for his school rampage that left four dead: Prosecutors reveal they bought the 9mm handgun for him for CHRISTMAS.“
QUICK FACTS:
- James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of the teenage shooting suspect who killed four and injured seven others during an attack at Oxford High School on Tuesday, were charged with involuntary manslaughter, the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday, according to Forbes.
- The parents had been summoned to the school just hours before the shooting took place after a teacher found a note on Crumbley’s desk depicting a semi-automatic handgun with the words “The thoughts won’t stop, help me.”
- James and Jennifer “failed to ask” if their son had the gun James purchased days before or even where the gun was, and “failed to inspect” his backpack before leaving the school without their son.
- On November 21, days before the shooting, a teacher observed Ethan researching ammunition on his cell phone during class and contacted his mother. Mrs. Crumbley responded in a text message to her son, “LOL. I’m not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught,” according to McDonald.
- Forbes reports how McDonald had said in an interview with local radio station WJR-AM that the actions of Crumbley’s parents went “far beyond negligence,” adding the gun used in the shooting seemed “to have been just freely available to that individual.”
