The parents of the Oxford High School shooter appear to be on the run.
Authorities in Michigan are searching for James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the accused Oxford High School shooter.
Their disappearance comes just hours after they were named in criminal warrants, each being charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of four teenagers who were allegedly killed by their son.
The Crumbleys were supposed to turn themselves in with their attorney on Friday but they stopped communicating and cooperating with their attorney, according to The Detroit News.
‘Their attorney had assured us that if a decision was made to charge them, she would produce them for arrest,’ Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said Friday.
That agreement with attorney Shannon Smith was sometime in the morning, McCabe said around 2pm Friday.
‘Our last conversation with the attorney was that she had been trying to reach them by phone and text, and they were not responding,’ he said.
McCabe said Fugitive Apprehension Team officers still were out searching for the couple as of mid-afternoon Friday. The Crumbley family owns a 2021 white Kia Seltos with the license plate DQG5203, according to Michigan Secretary of State records.
The FBI and US Marshals are assisting with the search.
Their son Ethan, 15, has been charged as an adult with two dozen crimes, including murder, attempted murder and terrorism, in the shooting at Oxford High School in Oakland County, Michigan.
Earlier Friday when Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald announced the charges against the Crumbley parents she said it was her intent to hold those responsible for the deaths of four students accountable.
‘While the shooter was the one who entered the high school and pulled the trigger, there are other individuals who contributed to the events on November 30, and it’s my intent to hold them accountable as well,’ she said.
‘Gun ownership is a right, and with that right comes great responsibility.’
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