Again allegations against parents of the Michigan school shooter

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Oxford (AP) – The public prosecutor’s office has again made serious accusations against the 15-year-old’s parents, who are accused of manslaughter and who is said to have shot four people at a school in the US state of Michigan.

“The defendants were in a better position than anyone else in the world to prevent this tragedy from happening, but they did not,” a relevant court document said. “Instead of looking after their son and helping him, they bought him a gun.” The parents knew that their son was “sadder than usual” and that one friend had moved away.

Four classmates killed

According to police, the 15-year-old killed four classmates in his high school in Oxford north of Detroit in early December with the gun that his father had bought days earlier. He also injured six students and a teacher. The prosecution assumes an intentional act. In a rare step, the prosecution had also brought charges against the parents of the underage shooter. “This case is also unique in that, on the day of the shooting, the defendants deliberately disregarded the clear evidence that their son posed a serious threat to other students,” the prosecutor said.

She was responding to a request from her parents to change the amount of the bail. This was set at 500,000 US dollars (around 440,000 euros) each. The risk of flight is currently even greater than at the time the indictment was brought. The couple are in arrears with payments for their house and have “already shown that they will flee if they get the opportunity”. The US police only caught the fugitive parents after a day-long manhunt.

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