School Shooter’s Mom Guilty of Manslaughter in Novel Verdict (1)

A Michigan mother was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the first verdict of its kind holding the parent of a school shooter accountable for murder on campus.

The multi-week trial of Jennifer Crumbley followed her son pleading guilty to four charges of first-degree murder for his 2021 shooting at Oxford High School. The novel question for the jurors was whether a parent’s actions—which here included purchasing a minor child a gun and then ignoring the son’s repeated calls for mental health care—can rise to the level of culpability needed for manslaughter.

“Jennifer Crumbley didn’t pull the trigger that day, ...