This is Deborah Roberts, co-anchor of 2020.

Today, on the podcast, the first parents in the country to be directly charged for the deaths caused by their

child in a mass shooting. Here's sins of the parents, the crumly trials produced by

ABC News Studios. 911 what's the location of your emergency?

Okay I'm not really sure I'm at my house there's an active shooter situation going on in the high school

my son goes to the high school I have a missing gun at my house I think my son

took the gun I don't know if it's him I don't know what's going on

and what you're really freaking out It's a groundbreaking case that's resulted in four counts of involuntary manslaughter charges

against both James and Jennifer Crumbly.

Authorities say the shooter used a handgun.

His father had bought just days earlier.

The first parents in America to be charged in a school shooting.

Parents of the shooter at Oxford High School who killed four students and wounded others

in November 2021.

There are very rare circumstances where gross negligence rises to the level where you can

be charged with a serious crime.

This is one of them.

Crumbly's defense has said a conviction would set a dangerous precedent for unwitting parents.

This case is very different.

This is about parents who largely ignored their son, neglected his cries for help, and then bought him a gun.

It really was just common sense.

You don't get to walk away from that. You just don't.

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