Parents captured after son charged in Oxford school shooting
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at a Michigan high school were caught early Saturday, several hours after a prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges against them, according to a sheriff's office.
James and Jennifer Crumbley were captured in Detroit, Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said in a statement. A vehicle tied to the couple had been located by a Detroit business owner late Friday.
Authorities had been searching for the Crumbleys since Friday afternoon. Sheriff Mike Bouchard said their attorney, Shannon Smith, had agreed to arrange their arrest if charges were filed but hadn’t been able to reach them.
Smith, however, said the Crumbleys weren’t on the run and had left town earlier in the week “for their own safety.”
“They are returning to the area to be arraigned,” Smith had told The Associated Press.
Ethan Crumbley, 15, is charged as an adult with murder, terrorism and other crimes. Officials said he pulled out a gun at Oxford High School on Tuesday, fatally shooting four people and injuring seven others.
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A prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges Friday against the parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school, saying they failed to intervene on the day of the tragedy despite being confronted with a drawing and chilling message — “blood everywhere” — that was found at the boy’s desk.
James and Jennifer Crumbley committed “egregious” acts, from buying a gun on Black Friday and making it available to Ethan Crumbley to resisting his removal from school when they were summoned a few hours before the shooting, Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said.
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