An American teenager was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for killing four students in his school in 2021 with a weapon given by his parents in the state of Michigan, in the north of the country.
Aged 15 at the time of the crime, Ethan Crumbley was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of early release by an Oakland County court.
The teenager, now 17, in an orange prison jumpsuit and dark glasses, told the jury before the verdict that he was “a really bad person.”
He pleaded guilty in October 2022 to bringing the Sig Sauer 9mm caliber pistol given by his parents as an early Christmas gift 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.
Rarely, his parents, accused of negligence and of having ignored the warning signs of his act, were charged with manslaughter.
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Despite being summoned by the teachers, who had notably informed them of their son’s searches for ammunition on the internet, they did not react.
