teenager sentenced to life in prison for murdering four students at his high school

An American teenager was sentenced, Friday, December 8, to life in prison for killing four students at his high school in the state of Michigan in 2021, with a weapon given to him by his parents. 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.

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.