teenager sentenced to life in prison for deadly high school shooting

An American teenager was sentenced, Friday, December 8, to life in prison for killing four students in his high school in 2021 with a weapon given by his parents in the state of Michigan, in the north of the country. Aged 15 at the time of the facts, Ethan Crumbley was tried as an adult and sentenced without the possibility of early release by an Oakland County court.

The teenager, now 17, in an orange prison jumpsuit and dark glasses, told the jury before the verdict that he “a really bad person.” He pleaded guilty in October 2022 to bringing the pistol given by his parents as an early Christmas gift to his high school, with 50 bullets in his backpack, and to shooting the high school students.

His parents charged with manslaughter

Ethan Crumbley killed two girls and two boys aged 14 to 17 and injured six other students and a teacher. His parents, accused of negligence and of having ignored the warning signs of his act, had been charged with manslaughter. Despite being summoned by the teachers, who had notably informed them of their son’s searches for ammunition on the internet, they did not react.