What Next: A Mass Shooter’s Mom Found Guilty

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Yesterday, a jury found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the mass-shooting carried out by her son Ethan at his high school in Oxford, Michigan. How will this conviction change the way school shootings are prosecuted? Can future violence be prevented by holding the parents accountable? Guest: Quinn Klinefelter, host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET in Detroit. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This episode contains discussions of mental illness and a mass shooting.
0:05.6	They're parts that are pretty gruesome. Take care while listening. Over the last few months in a courtroom in Michigan, a local prosecutor has been attempting to do something I consider basically impossible.
0:25.0	Explain a school shooting.
0:29.0	The school shooting in question happened in November 2021 at Oxford High School.
0:36.0	A student named Ethan Cromley came to class with a 9 millimeter handgun.
0:41.4	He killed four people, injured seven.
0:45.0	Afterward, the district attorney got access to reams of information in an attempt to figure out how this shooting went down.
0:54.0	That included security footage, cell phone video, text message after text message.
0:59.0	It's all piled up in court each day.
1:03.1	The defense attorney had a stack of papers
1:06.4	that was literally several feet high.
1:10.8	Queen Kleinfelder is covering the story for W-D-E-T in Detroit.
1:15.0	The judge referred to it as a leaning tower of PISA because it actually gave you that kind of a sense.
1:31.0	One of the pieces of evidence here is a confession of a sort. The is Ethan Bromwood,
1:36.7	aged 15.
1:42.0	And I'm gonna be be an excellent shooter.
1:45.0	This is a video the shooter took of himself, the day before the massacre,
1:49.7	where he explains exactly what he's about to do.
1:54.8	This is where I'm shinning up as Oxford High School.
1:57.5	I'm in 10th grade there.
1:59.4	This video was played in its entirety, in open court back in July.
2:05.0	It was a bit rambling and even mentions things like he realized that he was going to get life sentence because of his actions.
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