“There have been no plea deals, no reductions and no sentencing agreements,” Williams said. In addition to the four killed, seven were wounded in the shooting.
The terrorism charge was designed to address the harm caused to those who suffered from the violent rampage but who were not killed or injured, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told The Washington Post in December 2021.
Michigan’s 2002 anti-terrorism act defines terrorism as an act that is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence or affect the conduct of government or a unit of government through intimidation or coercion.”
An attorney for Crumbley did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment.
In another rare move, the alleged shooter’s parents were charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. James and Jennifer Crumbley face allegations that they ignored warning signs in their son’s behavior and did not secure the gun their son used, which investigators alleged was stored in an unlocked drawer of their bedroom. They pleaded not guilty in 2021 and filed a motion in July to have the case against them thrown out, arguing that they never should have been charged because their son is the sole person responsible for killing four people.
In January, Ethan Crumbley’s attorneys said they would pursue an insanity defense, according to a notice they filed obtained by The Associated Press.
At the time of the shooting in November 2021, it appeared to be the deadliest episode of on-campus violence in the United States in more than 18 months.
Timothy Bella, Kim Bellware, Meryl Kornfield and Annabelle Timsit contributed to this report.
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