USA The prosecution charges the parents of the Michigan shooter with involuntary manslaughter
Many years before Ethan Crumbley perpetrated a massacre at the Michigan high school where he was studying, a neighbor warned authorities that the situation at the child's home was not normal.
The boy, then 8 or 9 years old,
used to knock on his door when his parents left him alone
, which was often.
They liked browsing bars and toning down with a few drinks without worrying about anything else.
Kayla LeMieux
, who lives near
James and Jennifer Crumbley
, would open the door for him
and greet
him. "They didn't even give him a phone," he explained to the Detroit Free Press. He says that in a short time he notified the authorities, without knowing if they intervened because the situation did not change at all. He also notified the parents of the complaint, but
the mother defended herself saying that the child "was fine"
, that he was old enough to be left alone from time to time.
Nor did they do anything when the morning of the shooting, on November 30, they received the notification from the authorities after finding a disturbing drawing of their son, already 15 years old.
He had painted a fellow bleeding
, with a bullet shot and the weapon that he later used to kill four companions, all teenagers, and injure seven other people.
The day before, a teacher caught him looking for ammunition for his pistol on the internet.
Neither the parents nor the school management decided to take action on the matter
.
They suggested to his parents that they take Ethan home that morning.
They refused.
The young man, armed with a semiautomatic weapon that had been given to him at home in advance of Christmas, unloaded 30 rounds of ammunition and forever altered the lives of four families.
Despite completely ignoring the warnings and not feeling responsible for what happened, they fled as soon as the possibility of facing charges for the barbarism of their son began to sound in the media. Hours later, Oakland County District Attorney
Karen McDonald
confirmed
four counts each for involuntary manslaughter
, in addition to charging the perpetrator of the massacre with a murder in the first degree, terrorism and assault with intent to murder on his deployment. violent at the Oxford institute.
Michigan Attorney General
Dana Nessel
told CNN that she does not rule out that the parents' flight increases the punishment if they are found guilty.
"They are more likely to receive higher sentences
,
" he
said. Jennifer and James disappeared on Friday and were arrested by police on Saturday at the studio of an artist,
Andrzej Sikora
, 65. Sikora is being questioned to find out if he helped hide the Crumbleys outside of Detroit.
The three members of the family are detained in the same center, isolated and under permanent surveillance to prevent suicides. Although there is no communication between them,
the young man knows that his parents are being held on bail
of half a million dollars each. They have pleaded not guilty to any crime in connection with the shooting.
The young man's mother could not help tears when hearing the charges now weighing on her and her husband. The two grew up and met in Detroit, she, 43, working until recently as a marketing director at a real estate agency, and he, 45, employed at small software and technology companies. The latter, a San Francisco-based firm,
was fired in July for reasons unrelated to the incident
with his son, one of the company members confirmed.
Both have been in trouble with authorities for driving under the influence, but otherwise their record is clean, according to their attorney.
For
James Crumbley
, Jennifer's is a second marriage.
With
Michelle Cobb
, 39, he has an 18-year-old son Elijah, whom his mother has tried to keep out of this crisis.
Cobb has indicated to several American media that what happened does not fit either the profile or the image he has of the father of his son.
"I wanted him to death," he said.
"We had a fantastic relationship,"
interrupted after meeting his second wife, whom he married three months later.
The district attorney has indicated that she does not rule out filing charges against members of the college who, having searched the student's backpack and locker before the massacre, chose not to do so.
"We have not ruled out anything
.
"
For his part, the superintendent of the school district,
Tim Throne
, has defended himself in a statement alleging that "the student's parents never notified the school district that (Ethan) had direct access to a firearm or that they had bought a weapon recently. "
Apparently,
the student attributed his search for ammunition in nets to a family hobby
and explained that his macabre and violent drawings were for a video game.
"At no point did the teachers understand that the student wanted to harm others based on his behavior, his responses and his behavior, in apparent calm."
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