Posted on 12/04/2021 7:06:09 AM PST by tarpit
The fugitive parents of accused Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley broke down in court Saturday morning as their charges were read aloud.
James, 45, and Jennifer, 43, Crumbley were captured early Saturday in the basement of a building on the 1100 block of Bellevue Street in Detroit, less than half a mile from the Canadian border, police confirmed.
They were taken into custody after leading authorities on a large-scale manhunt.
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Nothing like influencing a potential jury before the trial.
Anyone today who thinks you can successfully evade an intensive law enforcement manhunt is a nut job, unless you have escape and evasion training, are in excellent shape, have lots of currency on hand, and, preferably, other people who are willing to help you
Does anyone know what medications they have been giving the young lad over the years! Time Big Pharma start paying their dues for the obvious. Had a grandson that did pills in a black bottle, and side effects were irrational behaviour, suicide...(and I could add mass murders!) Hasn’t many of the most recent gun incidents been involved with people who had been really heavily dosed up?
As somebody else said, the warning signs were not missed... they were ignored. The school should have demanded Ethan leave the school that moment.
The father apparently had 3 kids, each with different women. The mother of the older boy said he was a piece of sh*t and a deadbeat dad. But at the same time, the older son had lived with them until he had issues with the mom. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10273949/Ex-girlfriend-fugitive-father-Michigan-shooter-Ethan-Crumbley-slams-dad-wife.html
I am generally no fan of school administrations, but if the news is correct, the school discovered that the student had drawn a violent picture, showing a gun, people being shot, and homicidal/suicidal wording. This was nothing like the “my daddy the soldier” pictures students draw that flip out leftist school teachers. The school had the student and the parents together in a conference about it. It sounds like the school acted responsibly but the parents did not, if this is remotely accurate.
So is the Prosecutor.....rather than communicate with the police she pulled a stunt by holding a press conference instead without notification.....feed her story directly to the media so they would run with it. She’s looking for fame.
So if they wanted to be “free at last” they would have had to drive past Martin Luther King High School and Martin Luther King Apartments.
;-)
These parents have prior criminal records. They were so stupid as to allow their mentally ill son access to weapons.They purchased the gun as a gift to their son, yet registered it under the fathers name. Responsible parents would have the weapons locked up, and only used under supervision until the child becomes an adult. As a parent, you are responsible for your children’s actions either civilly or criminally if you provide a gun to a child, knowing that child is having mental issues. It is the same thing that went on with another school shooter, whose mother provided him with a gun , he wound up killing her before his shooting rampage at school.
I hope they get thrown in jail for a long time. Parents like these put a stain on responsible gun owners.
As far as I can tell these parents committed no crime.
I challenge all to come up with one.
The Soros funded progressive prosecutor and anti 2nd Amendment zealot Karen Mcdonald seemed to have little trouble imagining a crime...how about you?
Actually there are no conditions in their state for how a gun is stored.
That’s a good point. The student should have been made to leave the school when the violent drawing was discovered. Figure out what to do with him later but first things first, get him away from school. I didn’t know that the parents said the gun was locked up and Ethan must have stolen it. That puts a bit if a new wrinkle on things.
“These parents sound like Grade A nut jobs.”
The progressive left (inclusive of media) desperately wants universal “safe storage” laws akin to California.
It’s a mission for them.
They BOUGHT the pistol for their 15 year old son. How is this not computing?
“Does Steve Binger work for the Oakland DA’s office now?”
There’s a “Binger type” in every DA’s office in America regardless of location. Urban or Rural the “Binger type” always finds a job.
Conservatives who want draconian sentencing for everything, better wake up.
The law system is full of liberals.
Biometric locks.
You are correct. There is no gun storage statute in Michigan.
The charges here are involuntary manslaughter, which in turn invokes criminal negligence. This is a step beyond ordinary negligence, and I don't know the rough contours of this in Michigan law.
In civil liability, punitive damages (as close to criminal as civil law ever gets) uses the phrase callous and wanton disregard for the consequences.
It's not possible to pass laws that cover every possible way humans err and society wants to exact a pound of flesh, so for the most part this sort of calculus is left to the jury after hearing arguments from both sides. In all negligence, the consequences must be reasonably foreseeable to the person with a duty to act or forebear.
I think in most youth commits murder cases, the DA skips criminal charges because the family is ruined civilly and mentally. But, some DA like to pile on, and I'm sure each of us could hypothesize circumstances where the parent was criminally negligent.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
It’s a combination of risk aversion and the misplaced notion that if only we had the right laws, this sort of loss would be reduced. “Legal arrogance.”
Society by and large accepts, expects, some combination of thoise, to be “better protected.” Nobody wants a bad thing to happen, certainly not to themself, and if that does occur, very strong “find somebody to blame” comes out.
Risk aversion and fear drive the COVID fiasco. The public laps it up - at least until the novelty wears off.
Criminal negligence that results in death is, by Michigan statutory defintion, involuntary manslaughter.
Most often applied in DUI deaths.
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