The Crumbleys were located 40 miles from their home in Oxford. They were on the first floor of an industrial building in Detroit.
An Oakland County judge set bonds at $500,000 each for James and Jennifer Crumbley. Ethan remains in jail charged with killing four schoolmates and wounding seven other people at Oxford High School on Tuesday.
The shooting claimed the lives of Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17.
Parents of high school shooter planned to turn themselves in
During the arraignment, the couple’s attorneys insisted their clients were intended to turn themselves in before they were arrested. They also denied the prosecutors’ claims that their son had unrestricted access to the gun used in the shootings.
The couple’s attorneys had previously maintained the Crumbleys left town for their own safety and were trying to turn themselves in on Saturday morning
Attorney Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman issued a statement claiming that they “understand that our clients were apprehended last night, although we fully intended to turn them in first thing this morning for arraignment, contrary to the misinformation that has been rampant in the media.”
