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A judge ordered Michigan school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley to remain in a county jail.
Crumbley is accused of opening fire in the hallways of Oxford High School Nov. 30, fatally shooting four students and wounding seven others, including a teacher. The teenager was charged with 24 crimes, including murder and terrorism.
Crumbley, now 16, appeared before a judge Thursday for a virtual hearing. He has been held in the Oakland County Jail since he was charged last year, rather than a local youth detention center, due to the severity of his alleged crimes.
Ethan Crumbley, 15, charged with first-degree murder in a high school shooting, poses in a jail booking photograph taken at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Mich., Dec. 1, 2021.
(Oakland County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS)
Each month, the presiding judge is required to review his status.
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Judge Kwame Rowe ordered Crumbley to remain at the county jail. The judge also set a tentative trial date for Sept. 6, 2022. The trial is slated to start roughly six weeks before the trial of his parents, who were charged with four counts of manslaughter.
The Oakland County Jail is responsible for Crumbley’s education after taking over guardianship from his parents, Fox 2 reported. He has the option of earning a GED or high school diploma and could resume his education as early as next school year.
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New details from Crumbley’s personal journal were also disclosed this week as lawyers for Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, sought to prevent the suspected shooter’s journal from being admitted as evidence to their trial.
Jennifer Crumbley, mother of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager accused of killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School, appears in court for a preliminary examination on involuntary manslaughter charges in Rochester Hills, Mich., Feb. 8, 2022.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
“Hopefully my shooting will cause Biden to get impeached,” Crumbley allegedly wrote in a journal entry disclosed in a court filing Wednesday, the Detroit Free Press reported.
James Crumbley, father of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager accused of killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School, appears in court for a preliminary examination on involuntary manslaughter charges in Rochester Hills, Mich., Feb. 8, 2022.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Crumbley also reportedly referred to Biden as “sleepy f—— Joe Biden” in his journal and envisioned a massacre of such large scale, “Sleepy f— Joe Biden will have to make an apolg(y) to people.”
Lawyers for the Crumbley parents are worried politics might hurt their chances for a fair trial.
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“Mr. and Mrs. Crumbley should not be found guilty or not guilty depending on the attitudes of the jurors about Presidents Biden and Trump,” defense attorneys Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman argued in court records. “Political beliefs have no legitimate role in this trial.”
