An investigator read portions of Ethan Crumbley's journal moments before jurors watched a partial video of the shooting, which left four students dead at Oxford High School in 2021.
Unlike the jury, Jennifer Crumbley didn't look at the screen and instead cried with her forehead resting on her hands.
“I have zero help for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up the ... school,” Ethan Crumbley, then 15, wrote in his journal.
The Crumbleys are the first parents in the U.S. to be charged in a mass school shooting committed by their child.
Their son stayed in school and later pulled a handgun from his backpack to fire at students.
Persons:
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Organizations:
PONTIAC, Michigan, Oxford High School
Locations:
Mich, U.S