The parents of a then-15-year-old in Michigan who gunned down four high school students in 2021 were sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 15 years in prison after juries found that they didn’t take steps that could’ve prevented the mass shooting.
The negligence of James and Jennifer Crumbley—whose son Ethan shot the students at Oxford High School, about 40 miles north of Detroit— “caused unimaginable suffering” to a community, Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl A. Matthews said in explaining the sentences.
The defendants’ convictions aren’t about gun safety or poor parenting, the judge explained. Rather, they “confirm repeated acts or lack ...
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