a parent is held criminally responsible for a mass school shooting. her son killing four teens. it is only the first step of many things that need to change in order to protect our children. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell. thank you for being with us on this tuesday night. we want to begin tonight with a groundbreaking verdict against a michigan mother whose teenage son killed four classmates in a school shooting in 2021. the jury of six women and six men found jennifer crumbley guilty of four cons of involuntary manslaughter for allowing her troubled son access to a gun, despite warning signs of his declining mental health. this is noteworthy because it s the first time in united states that a parent has been convicted in the deaths of a mass school shooting committed by their child. prosecutors charged crumbley with four counts, one for each of the four students killed at oxford high school in michigan in 2021. well, toni
6th. i think i have that date right. there have been 4,001 gun deaths. 4,001 in the first month and few days. i want to put the pictures back up of the four people who died at the hand of ethan crumbley. madison, justin, just 17. what do we owe those 4,001 people this year? those four oxford students, and everyone who dies at the hands of gun violence? we live in a society where we can t control everything that happens outside of our household. we expect and demand a lot of each other every day to protect and keep our communities safe. one of the things that s most important is to talk about it with each other and to insure if you have a firearm, safely store it. that means having the gun unloaded, locked and ammunition separate. that s one of the major things we can do. if all of us did that, we could change the trajectory of gun violence in this country. 76% of school shooters get their gun from a home. we would have families who have lost their children at school. let s
responsible for a mass school shooting. her son killing four teens. it is only the first step of many things that need to change in order to protect our children. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell. thank you for being with us on this tuesday night. we want to begin tonight with the groundbreaking verdict against a michigan mother whose teenage son killed four classmates in a school shooting in 2021. the jury of six women and six men found jennifer crumbley involuntary manslaughter for allowing her troubled son access to a gun, despite warning signs of his declining mental health. this is noteworthy because it s the first time in the united states that a parent has been convicted in the deaths of a mass school shooting committed by their child. prosecutors charged crumbley with four counts, one for each of the four students killed at oxford high school in michigan in 2021. well, tonight, we are hearing from the jury foreperson
it was a small new year s eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, as
eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, ashley fallis was in the mood