Reason to believe
Urgh. The parents were asked to remove the kid from the school that day and they refused.
The parents of the teenager accused of killing four people in a Michigan high school shooting were taken into custody early Saturday after a manhunt, Detroit police said.
They tried to flee yesterday and it didn’t work out.
The county sheriff has said that James Crumbley purchased the gun used in the violence just days before the school shooting. McDonald said the pair were made aware of disturbing, violent images on the day of the shooting and were urged to get him counseling.
“James and Jennifer Crumbley resisted the idea of their son leaving the school at that time,” she said during a news conference Friday. “Instead, James and Jennifer Crumbley left the high school without their son. He was returned to the high school.”
Images that officials said were drawn by the teenager included a gun with the words “the thoughts won’t stop, help me,” and a bullet with the words “blood everywhere,” McDonald said.
It was the day before that a teacher spotted him searching for ammunition on line, and his mother said lol not mad at you.
They were urged to take him out of school and they didn’t so he killed four people and injured more.
The prosecutor told MSNBC on Friday that the teen’s parents “had reason to believe he was dangerous. … I believe they should be held accountable.”
She reiterated that prosecutors believe the gun used in the attack was purchased for the teenager.
“We have parents who bought a weapon for their son,” McDonald said. “They posted on social that it was his gun. He posted on social media that it was his gun.”
The couple did not tell school officials Tuesday, when they were informed about the images, that their son had a weapon, the prosecutor said. Authorities believe he brought it to school that day in a backpack, McDonald said.
lol not mad at them?
Heartbreaking and terrifying.
How much do you want to bet that the parents approached gun ownership as a ‘lifestyle’ thing, where having guns is a personality trait?
musubk: No bet. The parents were also Trumpeteers, the mom, in particular, having written an open letter to the Great Orange One himself thanking him for being such a strong advocate for 2nd Amendment rights.
‘The Crumbleys’. They sound like creatures out of a particularly horrible poem by a deranged Edward Lear.
Or Edward Gorey.
I was thinking it sounded like a Dickens villain, but I have to bow to Edward Gorey.
Apparently, at that school office meeting, young Crumbley had the gun in his backpack. Neither the parents nor the school thought to check.