“The Crumbleys, like every parent and community member, are devastated by the school shooting,” their attorneys say in court documents. “The last thing they expected was that a school shooting would take place, or that their son would be responsible. This situation is entirely devastating.”
But the prosecution disagrees. They are arguing that a higher bond amount is more appropriate. Because the couple knowingly and negligently failed to get help for their son in time.
The defense is arguing that McDonald has filed “inappropriate” charges against these parents. And she is charging the parents ” out of anger” and in “an effort to send a message to gun owners.”
” Reading the words, ‘Help me,” with a gun, blood everywhere,” McDonald said, “A parent could read those words and know that their son had access to a deadly weapon that they gave him is unconscionable, and I think criminal. It is criminal.”
