“And not only did she not do it, she doesn’t even regret it.”ĭuring the trial, prosecutors focused on two key events: the purchase of a 9 mm Sig Sauer handgun on Black Friday, four days before the school attack, and a crucial meeting at the school on the morning of the shooting when a teacher discovered a violent drawing on Ethan’s math assignment. “Just the smallest - the smallest - of things could have saved Hana and Tate and Madisyn and Justin,” McDonald said, referring to the four victims by their first names. “It’s going to take unique, egregious, incomprehensible facts - and that’s what we have here,” she said. Under Michigan law, parents have a reasonable obligation to prevent their child from harming or being a risk to others, McDonald told the jury at the close of seven days of testimony. Ethan, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty to murder and is serving a life prison sentence for killing four students at Oxford High School on Nov. Jury deliberations for Jennifer Crumbley are scheduled to begin Monday after the judge gives instructions.
to be charged in a mass school shooting committed by their child.
They’re accused of making a gun accessible at home and not addressing Ethan Crumbley’s mental health. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, and husband James, 47, are charged with involuntary manslaughter.