School shooter’s mom could have prevented bloodshed, prosecutor says

February 3, 2024

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday tried to attack the credibility of a Michigan school shooter’s mother, a day after she denied knowing her son had mental health struggles and rejected claims that she should be responsible for the deaths of four students in 2021. During cross-examination, the prosecutor reminded Jennifer Crumbley — and the jury — that she could have prevented the bloodshed by taking Ethan Crumbley home hours earlier when confronted with his violent drawing on a math paper. “On November the 30th of 2021, at 12:51 p.m., you could have been with ...

Michigan school shooter’s mom was worried he might do ‘something dumb,’ friend says

February 2, 2024

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Hours before a 2021 mass school shooting in Michigan, the mother of a teenager who killed four students said she was worried that he was “going to do something dumb,” a man who had a close relationship with her testified Wednesday. Brian Meloche said Jennifer Crumbley explained to him that she had to go to Oxford High School after a teacher discovered a violent drawing on Ethan Crumbley’s math assignment the morning of the tragedy. “Something with Ethan. (She) was worried he was going to do something dumb,” Meloche said. Meloche, who was having an ...

Official found it ‘strange’ that Michigan school shooter’s mom didn’t take him home over drawing

January 31, 2024

(AP) A Michigan school official told jurors Tuesday that he felt he had no grounds to search a teen’s backpack before the boy fatally shot four fellow students, even though staff met with the teen’s parents that morning to discuss a violent drawing he had scrawled on a math assignment. Nick Ejak, who was in charge of discipline at Oxford High School, said he was concerned about Ethan Crumbley’s mental health but did not consider him to be a threat to others on Nov. 30, 2021. After the meeting about the drawing, the teen’s parents declined to take their son home. A few hours ...

Prosecutor tells jury that mother of Michigan school shooter is at fault for 4 student deaths

January 26, 2024

PONTIAC — A school shooting that killed four students in Michigan could have been prevented if the mother of the armed teen had removed him after seeing his violent drawings that same day, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday in an uncommon trial about parental responsibility. Jennifer ...

Lawsuit seeks to have Karamo officially declared removed as Michigan GOP chair

January 22, 2024

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The recently installed acting chair of Michigan’s Republican Party and others in the state GOP are suing to get the group’s former leader, Kristina Karamo, officially declared as being removed from the post. Malinda Pego, Michigan GOP administrative vice chair Ali Hossein and party coalitions vice chair Hassan Nehme are among plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed Friday in Kent County Circuit Court in Grand Rapids. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract. A group of Michigan Republican state committee members voted Jan. 6 to remove Karamo, an election- denier ...

Defense Department to again target ‘forever chemicals’ contamination near Michigan military base

January 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s office announced Friday. Environmentalists say the systems will help prevent PFAS from spreading into the Clarks Marsh area and the Au Sable River near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda on the shores of Lake Huron. The base closed in 1993 as part of a base realignment. PFAS, an abbreviation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are compounds that ...