Fate of "Baby-Faced Killer" Ethan Crumbley Decided?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A judge will rule on whether Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. That is the harshest punishment available in Michigan.
Crumbley, now 17, pleaded guilty to one count of terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder and 19 other charges. In November 2021, Crumbley fatally shot four students and injured seven other people. Testimony was presented this week at a Miller hearing which is required by law when prosecutors seek a life sentence for a minor defendant.
Sentencing is scheduled for December.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Troy Slaten - Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC, Twitter @TroySlaten
- Dr. Jorey Krawczyn - Police Psychologist, Faculty Saint Leo University; Consultant Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S.
- Bobby Chacon - 27 years former FBI Agent, BobbyChacon.com, Instagram/Twitter: @BobbyChaconFBI, Writer and Co-producer: Audible Original Series, "After the Fall"
- Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida www.pathcaremed.com, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine. Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
- Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories dot Com, Twitter: @swimmie2009
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:14.0 | You shoot up a school, gunning down young people, then you go in front of a judge and demand |
| 0:27.4 | that no photos of the bodies of the victims be shown in court. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay, that's not how it works. You shoot the people dead, you plead not guilty, and then |
| 0:41.3 | you demand that nobody see the evidence. Okay, somebody needs a little refresher and the |
| 0:49.6 | evidence code. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at Fox |
| 0:55.1 | Nation and Series XM 111. That's right. The man who gunned down four students dead and |
| 1:01.7 | injured seven others at a Michigan school shooting does not want the crime scene, including |
| 1:07.2 | the dead bodies, shown in court. Ethan Crumbly also trying to stop prosecutors from showing |
| 1:13.7 | security footage of the killing spree at Oxford High School. And just for good measure, |
| 1:20.4 | his lawyer also wants to bar a video of him torturing a bird. Okay, just let that sink in for a |
| 1:29.0 | moment. I'm talking about Ethan Crumbly on trial for mass murder, a school shooting. |
| 1:36.7 | How did the whole thing go down? Take a listen to Pierre Thomas, ABC. |
| 1:42.7 | Student John Edwards describing the chaos to our affiliate WXYZ. |
| 1:47.4 | So with the PA, we hear our principal, Mr. Wolf is shouting, Alice locked down, Alice locked down, |
| 1:53.0 | and then we heard the gunshots in the class. And so we locked down, turned lights off, our |
| 1:57.3 | teacher got paper taped over the window on the door and got his two big tables and barricaded |
| 2:02.5 | the door. It's just scared. I was praying for my safety, my friend's safety, everyone's safety. |
| 2:10.2 | Edwards able to call his mother. I can hear the fear in his voice. And I told him I said, |
| 2:15.2 | maybe I'm on my way. I've never been so scared in my life. School officials left really. |
| 2:20.3 | Of course I'm shocked. That's devastating. Really shocked and devastated. I'm sure that |
| 2:28.2 | teacher was, but guess what? There were warning signs and lots of them. Not everyone's to be |
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