An American teenager was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for killing four students at his school with a gun given to him by his parents in the northern state of Michigan in 2021.
Ethan Crumbley, 15 years old at the time of the crime, was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by an Oakland County court.
Dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit and dark glasses, the teenager, now 17, told the jury before the verdict that he was “a really bad person.”
In October 2022, he pleaded guilty to taking the 9mm caliber Sig Sauer pistol, which his parents had given him as an early Christmas present, to his school in Oxford with 50 bullets in his backpack and shooting the students.
Ethan Crumbley killed two girls and two boys aged 14 to 17 and injured six other students and a teacher.
In rare cases, his parents were charged with involuntary manslaughter because they were accused of negligence and ignoring the warning signs of his actions.
AFP
Despite requests from the teachers, who had informed them about their son's search for ammunition, particularly on the Internet, they did not respond.