Jennifer and James Crumbley, the first parents of a mass school shooter in the U.S. to be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the attack, were sentenced Tuesday in a Michigan courtroom to 10 to 15 years in prison.
The sentence came after the court heard statements from the family members of Tate Myre, 16, Hana St. Juliana, 14, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Justin Shilling, 17. The students were killed when the Crumbleys’ son, Ethan, went on a shooting rampage at Oxford High School in Michigan on Nov. 30, 2021.
“You created all of this,” Nicole Beausoleil, Baldwin’s mother, said through tears. “You failed as parents. The punishment that you face will never be enough.”
Beausoleil recalled the final hours of her daughter’s life, comparing them with the Crumbleys’ actions before and during the shooting. “When you texted ‘Ethan don’t do it,’ I was texting Madisyn: ‘I love you. Please call Mom,'” she said.
Reina St. Juliana, the sister of Hana, brought many to tears as she spoke of how her sister would never see her prom, graduation or birthdays.
“I never got to say goodbye,” Reina said. “Hana was only 14 … she took her last breath in a school she hadn’t even been in for three months.”
Jill Soave, mother of Justin Shilling, asked the judge to hand down the maximum sentence possible to both parents. “The ripple effects of both James’ and Jennifer’s failures to act have devastated us all,” she said. “This tragedy was completely preventable.”
Judge Cheryl Matthews addressed both…
