A father bought a gun for his teenage son, who then used it to kill four students at a Michigan high school school and has now been convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
James Crumbley, on Thursday, was found guilty along with his wife, Jennifer Crumbley, for the November 2021 Oxford High School shooting carried out by their son, Ethan Crumbley.
After 11 hours of deliberation, a jury found James partially responsible for not preventing Ethan in the state’s deadliest school shooting.
The couple are the first American parents to be charged in a mass shooting committed by their child. James and Jennifer were tried separately.
During James’ trial, prosecutors focused on the Sig Sauer 9 mm handgun he purchased four days before the massacre. Prosecutors also highlighted the couple’s reaction to a drawing Ethan made on his math assignments just hours before the shooting.
‘James Crumbley had the easiest, most obvious chances to stop the deaths of these four students,’ Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald stated during closing arguments on Wednesday.
‘And he chose to do nothing.’
Jennifer was convicted in February. Her conviction was seen by some as potentially setting a precedent for more parents of young shooters to be charged in the future.
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