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Calista241

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Fri Dec 8, 2023, 07:51 PM Dec 2023

'He has an obsession with violence': School shooter Ethan Crumbley sentenced to life behind bars, no chance of parole [View all]

Source: Law and Crime

Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan teenager who killed four of his classmates after drawing violent images in a class workbook, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Crumbley, now 17, was 15 years old when he shot and killed his fellow Oxford High School students — Tate Myre, 16 Hana St. Juliana, 14, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Justin Shilling, 17 — in November 2021 with a gun he had received as a gift from his parents. A subsequent investigation revealed that he had been caught drawing violent images while in class before the attack.

He pleaded guilty in October 2022 to all the charges against him, 24 in total — including murder and terrorism. In September, Oakland County Judge Kwame Rowe ruled that Crumbley is eligible for the sentence of life without parole, which is what the prosecutors had requested. First-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence in Michigan, but Rowe could have potentially considered a shorter term because of the defendant’s age at the time.

His defense lawyers had requested a sentence of an undetermined “term of years.”

When Rowe issued his sentence, he was unequivocal: the defendant would never know life outside of prison.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/he-has-an-obsession-with-violence-school-shooter-ethan-crumbley-sentenced-to-life-behind-bars-no-chance-of-parole/

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