PONTIAC, Mich. — Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald is asking a circuit judge to permit evidence in the trial of the parents of the accused Oxford High shooter because it allegedly reveals “they had a role in creating a pathway to violence for the shooter.”
In a motion to Judge Cheryl Matthews this week, McDonald wrote James and Jennifer Crumbley “played a much larger role than just buying their son a gun and there were many potential acts of ordinary care beyond simply locking up that gun that could have prevented this shooting.”
McDonald wrote how Ethan Crumbley, dating back to the age of 6, was exposed to parental arguments, alcohol and substance abuse and marital infidelity. Purchases at a local liquor store totaled nearly $4,000 in the year of 2021 alone, according to the filing.
