In the USA, the father of a boy who killed four people at school was found guilty after his mother

In the US, after mother the father of a teenager who opened fire at a school, killing four people and injuring seven others, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

They write about it BBC and CNN.

Ethan Crumbley’s father, James Crumbley, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for ignoring signs that his son might become violent before the fatal shooting.

Prosecutors accused him of “gross negligence (in caring for his son – ed.)”.

The man bought a 9mm SIG Sauer pistol for his son days before the attack, failed to properly secure it, ignored the teenager’s deteriorating mental health and failed to exercise “reasonable care” to prevent possible danger, according to investigators.

Despite the fact that the man pleads not guilty, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

The teenager’s mother, Jennifer Crumbley, is also threatened with such a term recognized guilty of similar charges in February of this year.

12 judges of the jury deliberated for more than 10 hours to make the relevant decision.

The woman also did not admit her guilt.

It is noted that the judge will announce the sentence to both members of the couple on April 9.

We will remind that on November 30, 2021, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan. During the shooting, he killed four students and wounded seven people – six students and a teacher.

In 2023, Ethan was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The prosecution argued during the trial that the boy’s mother, Jennifer Crumbley, was responsible for the deaths caused by her son. According to them, the woman showed “gross negligence”, because she gave the teenager a gun and did not provide him with proper psychiatric treatment.

At the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Ethan Crumbley wanted psychiatric help: he complained of hallucinations, allegedly seeing “devils” and “ghosts” at home, but his parents did not respond to this.

At the same time, Jennifer Crumbley denied the existence of problems in her son.

The morning before the shooting, there was a rally at the school over Ethan’s drawing of a gun and a man bleeding. The boy’s parents interrupted the drawing to go to work and refused to take the boy home.

After that, the school administration sent Ethan back to class without checking his backpack, which had a gun lying around. In a few hours, the teenager started shooting.

It is also known that the gun was a “Christmas present” for Ethan, because three days before the mass murder, he and his mother visited a shooting range where the teenager learned to use weapons.

Jennifer’s defense argued that others were to blame, including her husband, who improperly stored the gun, and the school, which allegedly failed to inform her of her son’s behavior problems.

Ethan himself was accused, having planned and carried out the attack himself.

We used to reportedthat for the first time in the USA the mother of a teenager who staged a school shooting was found guilty.