Parents of Michigan School Shooter Each Sentenced To Up To 15 Years in Prison

The parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley were each sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of manslaughter for providing their then-15-year-old son with a gun, which he used to carry out the 2021 attack in Oxford High School that killed four people.

James Crumbley, Ethan Crumbley’s father, was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after he was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter last month. Ethan Crumbley’s mother, Jennifer Crumbley, was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in February.

The sentencing is believed to be the first time parents of a shooter have been held accountable for their role in a shooting. Ethan Crumbley was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in December 2023.

Both parents were given credit for time served on their sentences, and are barred from contacting the families of the victims.

Prosecutors argued that despite knowing about his declining mental health, Ethan Crumbley’s parents gave him a semi-automatic handgun days before the shooting, which he used in the attack.

During Jennifer Crumbley’s trial, prosecutors argued that she could have done several things to stop her son from shooting his classmates.

Prosecutors said that just hours before the shooting happened, the school called the parents to discuss some images Ethan Crumbley had drawn of guns and gunshot victims. Jennifer Crumbley dismissed the school’s concerns, however, and failed to tell them she had recently given her son a gun.

Months before the shooting, Ethan Crumbley texted his mom that he was hearing voices and seeing demons. But he told his friends that when he asked his mother