scholarships. she was an artist who loves to read and write. she leaves behind three younger siblings. tate meier was a star football player on the school varsity team and helped his team make it to the playoffs this year. man, it feels awesome. it feels great. in the rain, this is where we live. rain is just like football, tough, muddy, everything about us is tough. just last month, his family watched him play in what we now know would be his final game. tate was just 16 years old. and fellow student, hanna st. julianna was just 14 years old. she was on the school s women s basketball team and her teammates describe her as kind and silly. tuesday night, the day of the shooting, hanna was set to play in her first oxford high school game. justin schilling was incredibly smart and hard working. he was part of the school s district s back baprogram.
next time don t get caught. and then, obviously, on this very tragic day, on the 30th, they were called to the school and about their son s drawing, which literally depicted threats and acts of violence, and instead of disclosing to the school that he had full access to this weapon, they chose not to, chose not to take their son home, they chose not to tell anybody that he might be dangerous, when it was clear and they had every likelihood that he was and instead they left. reporter: and instead they left. the prosecutor saying that these parents, had they acted, could have prevented this tragedy from happening, therefore they are criminally negligent. we did hear from the lawyers representing jennifer and james crumbley. they insist that even though the crumbleys did not show up for their arraignment on friday, they were not, in fact, fleeing. take a listen to what one of their lawyers had to say. last night and throughout the
access to the gun he s accused of using during the shooting spree that left four students dead. cnn s athena jones has more details from michigan. reporter: hi, there. james and jennifer crumbley found hiding in a detroit warehouse early saturday morning. they were arraigned later in the morning, each faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the four teens that their son, ethan crumbley, is charged with murdering. each of these counts of involuntary manslaughter carries up to 15 years in prison and a $7,500 fine and mandatory dna collection. it is very, very rare to see the parents charged in a high school shooting case, but oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald explained why she was making that move. both defendants were aware that he was searching ammunition on his phone at school, instead of reacting to that as a concerned parent and worried about safety, mrs. crumbley texted, lol, i m not mad, just
of questions about the school s role in this, there was a video out where a school official says there was nothing they should have done differently. paraphrasing. but you made the point if it was concerning enough for the parents to have been called we would have liked to have been called in. there s so many occasions like this where there are red flags that are missed in advance of one of these horrific events. is there culpability here? what s your read in terms of what transpired in the 24 hours leading up to the shooting and who kind of holds some responsibility right now? well, you re exactly right, we have a process if there s behavior or threat when we re looped in, we have a very specific protocol. we make a determination of what s going on, if the school is safe and clear at that moment, if the child is safe and clear at that moment, if it rises to the level of serious concern, which i believe this would have, then there s a follow-on. we remove them, or request the school
concerns now in the wake of those who worked the scene, the hours you guys have been working. i appreciate your time over the course of the last several days. thank you, sir. all right. four young lives taken. the life of their accused killer now hangs in limbo. the attack has become, sadly, and so uniquely, american. now the family of 17-year-old madison baldwin was supposed to watch her graduate high school this coming spring. she d already been accepted to multiple colleges. some with full scholarships. we re told she was an artist who loved to read, she loved to write. she leaves behind three younger siblings. tate meyer was a star football player on the school s varsity football team. he helped his team make it to the playoffs this year. man, it feels awesome. i mean, it feels great. in the rain, this is where we live, rain is just like oxford football, tough, muddy, everything about us is tough. just a few days prior to the shooting he tweeted a picture of