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Calista241

(5,586 posts)
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 07:51 PM Dec 2023

'He has an obsession with violence': School shooter Ethan Crumbley sentenced to life behind bars, no chance of parole

Source: Law and Crime

Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan teenager who killed four of his classmates after drawing violent images in a class workbook, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Crumbley, now 17, was 15 years old when he shot and killed his fellow Oxford High School students — Tate Myre, 16 Hana St. Juliana, 14, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Justin Shilling, 17 — in November 2021 with a gun he had received as a gift from his parents. A subsequent investigation revealed that he had been caught drawing violent images while in class before the attack.

He pleaded guilty in October 2022 to all the charges against him, 24 in total — including murder and terrorism. In September, Oakland County Judge Kwame Rowe ruled that Crumbley is eligible for the sentence of life without parole, which is what the prosecutors had requested. First-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence in Michigan, but Rowe could have potentially considered a shorter term because of the defendant’s age at the time.

His defense lawyers had requested a sentence of an undetermined “term of years.”

When Rowe issued his sentence, he was unequivocal: the defendant would never know life outside of prison.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/he-has-an-obsession-with-violence-school-shooter-ethan-crumbley-sentenced-to-life-behind-bars-no-chance-of-parole/

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'He has an obsession with violence': School shooter Ethan Crumbley sentenced to life behind bars, no chance of parole (Original Post) Calista241 Dec 2023 OP
We've got to do a better job of intervening with these kids before they snap. Proudfoot Dec 2023 #1
His parents enabled his behavior. BigmanPigman Dec 2023 #2
They fucked around by giving him a gun. Now they're finding out. n/t ArkansasDemocrat1 Dec 2023 #3
Every vote for a Republican is a vote for school shootings. n/t DJ Porkchop Dec 2023 #4
17 years old Prairie Gates Dec 2023 #5

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
2. His parents enabled his behavior.
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 08:10 PM
Dec 2023

In fact, they encouraged it. Now they are both facing jail time for doing so.

Prairie Gates

(1,053 posts)
5. 17 years old
Sun Dec 10, 2023, 12:19 AM
Dec 2023
Redding: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime.

I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him -- tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I gotta live with that.

Rehabilitated?

It's just a bullshit word.

So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.

Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.
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