What happened? A Michigan jury on Tuesday found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter for the four Oxford High School students her 15-year-old son killed in a November 2021 mass shooting. Crumbley, 45, is the "first parent in the U.S. to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack," The Associated Press said.
Who said what? "The cries have been heard, and I feel this verdict is gonna echo throughout every household in the country," said Craig Shilling, whose son Justin, 17, was killed in the shooting.
The commentary The verdict "definitely sets" what lawyers call a "bright line rule," attorney Brian Buckmire told ABC News. "Parents, we're all on notice now." "I'm not convinced" the verdict "will open the floodgates to these kinds of prosecutions," University of Michigan law professor Eve Brensike Primus told The New York Times. Prosecutors may feel "emboldened," but without the damning facts of this case, good luck "getting charges to stick."
What next? The shooter's father, James Crumbley, goes on trial in March. Jennifer Crumbley will be sentenced in April. |