Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, sometimes referred to her son as “soft baby,” an eyewitness testified Monday.
His son shot and killed four students at Oxford High School: Tate Myre (16), Justin Schilling (16), Hannah St. Juliana (14), and Madisyn Baldwin (17). Jennifer Crumbley is on trial on four counts of manslaughter after injuring seven other victims. School on November 30, 2021 when I was 15 years old.
“When she talked about him, there was nothing really positive about him,” Kira Pennock, who owns the farm in Michigan where Jennifer Crumbley once rode, said on the stand Monday. Told. “There have been many times when she has called him a ‘soft baby’.”
Pennock also said Jennifer called her son a “freak” and said she wanted him to do “normal kid things,” as FOX 2 Detroit first reported.
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Jennifer Crumbley is on trial for manslaughter, the first parents to be charged in connection with a school shooting in the United States. She and her husband are accused of contributing to her son Ethan Crumbley’s death at Oxford High School by neglecting his needs and making guns available in her home. (Mandy Wright/Detroit Free Press, via AP, Pool)
Prosecutors argued that Jennifer and James Crumbley bought the gun Ethan used in the shooting as a Christmas present for a then-15-year-old boy and posted about the purchase on social media.
The state also noted that before the shooting, Jennifer sent text messages to friends and co-workers indicating she knew something was wrong with her son.
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“I have to go to my son’s school, but… [met] his counselor. S— day,” a text Jennifer sent to Pennock just before 11 a.m. on Nov. 30 was presented at a pretrial conference.
Kira Pennock, who owns the farm in Michigan where Jennifer Crumbley once rode, said on the stand Monday that “there was nothing really positive when she talked about him.” ” he said. (Mandy Wright/Detroit Free Press, via AP, Pool)
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said Jennifer and James met with their son and his school counselor the morning of the shooting to discuss the disturbing drawings his son had drawn in class.
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Ethan wrote “I can’t stop thinking” under a picture of a gun, then erased it before meeting with school officials and continued, “Help me.” Above the picture of the bullet, it says, “Blood everywhere.” Further down the page are other handwritten words and phrases, such as “My life is useless.”
James and Jennifer Crumbley met with their son and school leaders the morning of the shooting after Ethan Crumbley’s teacher noticed him drawing disturbing pictures in class. did. (Oakland County)
Prosecutors say she left instead of taking him home. Ethan Crumbley then pulled a gun from his backpack and fired. He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for his crimes.
Last week, prosecutors presented details of Mr. Crumbley’s text messages in court. On March 17, 2021, Ethan told her mother in a text thread with her son that she thought her house was haunted, and she said a “devil” was “throwing bowls.” I wrote.
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“Maybe it’s just my paranoia,” he wrote in a series of messages that went unanswered.
On March 17, 2021, Ethan told his mother in a text thread with his son that he thought the house was haunted, writing that “the devil” was “throwing bowls.” (Mandy Wright/Detroit Free Press, via AP, Pool)
Jennifer did not respond because she was out riding horses with her husband. She had texted her husband from earlier in the day that she wanted to get in the car drunk. [her] Horse. “
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The Crumbleys are said to have fled their Oxford home after Michigan authorities issued a red alert for the couple shortly after the November 2021 shooting. They were considered fugitives until their arrest by U.S. Marshals on December 4, 2021.
Ethan Robert Crumbley (left) and his parents Jennifer Crumbley and James Crumbley. (Oakland County Sheriff)
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Lawyers say the parents fled for their own safety and turned themselves in days later, arguing they could not have predicted their son’s death. plan a mass shooting.
In his December 2023 sentencing, Ethan said his parents were not responsible because they “didn’t know” and that Ethan, now 17, “didn’t tell them” what he was up to.
