Parents of the teenager who killed four students at a high school in the northern United States have deliberately ignored signals that their son posed a threat to other students, the prosecution said in a court document on Friday.
Ethan Crumbley, 15, killed four students in cold blood and injured six others as well as a teacher on November 30 in the grounds of the high school in Oxford, a small town north of Detroit, Michigan. He was charged with “terrorist act” and “murder”, while his parents were charged with manslaughter for letting their son use a gun they had purchased. All three plead not guilty.
Instead of looking after their son and helping him, they bought him a gun
Parents have “deliberately ignored, on the day of the shooting, the clear evidence that their son was a danger to other students“, wrote the prosecution. They were”best placed to prevent this tragedy, but they did not “, he continued. “Instead of looking after their son and helping him, they bought him a gun “.
The public prosecutor thus responded to a request from the parents to reduce the amount of the deposit. This amount has been set at $ 500,000 (approximately 440,000 euros) each.
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