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At a hearing that will determine if the shooter gets a life prison sentence, defense lawyers painted him as a severely depressed youth with a closed head injury and detached parents who refused to acknowledge his mental deterioration.
“I just watched him kill someone,” one student texted his family in a group chat as he hid in a bathroom.
Prosecutors painted a picture of a teenager obsessed with becoming famous as a school shooter, while the shooter's attorney focused on his neglectful parents and inaction by school officials.
It will allow family members, police, mental health professionals, roommates and former dating partners to petition a judge to remove firearms from those they believe pose an imminent threat to themselves or others.
Lawyers for the couple asked an appeals court to drop the charges against them, but a three-judge panel ruled there is enough evidence for a trial to move forward.
Though federal cases are still pending, a state judge held the school district and its staff members are protected by governmental immunity.
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Crumbley admitted he planned the attack with a gun purchased for him by his parents, who face their own charges over the shooting.
School shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley appears at his plea hearing at the Oakland County Courthouse in Pontiac, Mich., on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News via AP)
While the judge refused to move the trial, defense attorneys for the parents of Ethan Crumbley were successful in restricting public statements after they were called liars by the prosecution.
The proposed legislation would require school employees to immediately report if they believe there is the threat of a mass casualty event at school.
DETROIT — A shooting survivor and the family of a girl who was fatally shot by a classmate added to the pile of lawsuits against school administrators in Oxford, Michigan, claiming they didn’t do enough to stop the gunman after witnessing his disturbing behavior.
Policymakers looking to stop school shootings have countless options, but research suggests that lots of the ideas on the table are ineffective and even harmful. Here’s what works and what doesn’t.
DETROIT — The families of students killed and injured in last year’s Oxford High School shooting claim in court that school officials didn’t follow the district’s process for dealing with the gunman’s alarming behavior in the weeks leading up to the shooting.
Defense lawyers for James and Jennifer Crumbley vowed they would keep trying to get the pair out of jail ahead of a trial that will most likely begin in the fall.
DETROIT — The parents of a Michigan teen killed in last year’s Oxford High School shooting sued the school district for not doing enough to stop the gunman, who they say had a history of violent and threatening behavior.
DETROIT — In a suit relating to the November 2021 shooting at Oxford High School, a federal court in Michigan refused to stay a civil case against a school district and some of its employees pending criminal proceedings against shooter Ethan Crumbley and his parents James and Jennifer Crumbley.
Defense lawyers tried to paint the couple as oblivious to the actions and behavior of their troubled son, who is said to have begged them to send him to a therapist as he wrote detailed shooting plans in a journal.
Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager who pleaded guilty to killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School, appear in court in Rochester Hills, Mich., on Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Prosecutors were ready, however, and introduced disturbing new evidence about the teen’s mindset leading up to the shooting.
Attorneys say school counselors and teachers had enough evidence to alert local authorities about a potential shooting but failed to do so.
