During the settlement this morning for James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the Michigan school shooting suspect, an attorney told the court she had repeatedly tried to contact the Oakland County prosecutor and that the client Hers is not evading law enforcement and is planning to turn in on her own.
Attorney Shannon Smith said: “Last night and throughout the day, we were in contact with our clients – they were scared, absolutely terrified, they weren’t home, they were figuring out what to do. What, financial arrangements.
The Crumbleys, who were charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter following the fatal shooting of their 15-year-old son Ethan. allegedly made at Oxford High School, was found early this morning in a Detroit building and arrested after police launched a manhunt after the pair failed to show up for arrangements on Friday.
“Our plan is to drive to the Novi district court this morning, as arrangements are scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. [a.m. ET] for any county arrangement, and we had scheduled to meet them at 7:30, to text the Fugitive Hunting Team to arrive at the courthouse by 8:30 so they could be arranged. the first job. Those are the plans that we’ve worked on and reinforced, and we’re not publishing them because unlike the prosecution, we’re not trying to make this a media spectacle,” Smith said. .
“This case is absolutely the saddest, most tragic, worst case imaginable, absolutely without a doubt. But our clients will completely turn themselves in – it’s just a matter of logistics and all the prosecution has to do is talk to me about it and we’ve tried many times,” Smith said. said more.
Defense attorney Mariell Lehman said the pair were “completely taking this case seriously.”
“They were devastated by the events of the Oxford incident. This is not something they or we take lightly,” Lehman said during the settlement.
“Mr. Crumbley, like Mrs. Crumbley, is not a flight risk, he is not a danger to the public. There is no danger that they will escape prosecution. They never evade prosecution. “, she added.
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