A prosecutor says James and Jennifer Crumbley made a gun available to their 15-year-old son and resisted removing him from school when they were summoned there hours before he used the gun to kill 4 and wound 7 others.
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Charging decision anticipated for Michigan shooter’s parents
Ethan Crumbley’s parents met with school officials about their son’s classroom behavior just a few hours before the shooting, a sheriff says.
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Student uses handgun to kill 3, wound 8 at Michigan school
In custody is a 15-year-old sophomore who refused to say how he got the gun into the high school.
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Jury deliberates for 2nd day in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing
The jury is deliberating for a second day in the trial of three white men charged with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in coastal Georgia.
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Next Kyle Rittenhouse legal battle: Who gets the $2 million bail posted after his arrest?
An organization run by right-wing lawyer Lin Wood filed a motion shortly after the verdict Friday asking that the money be refunded to that group, the the teenager’s lawyers say it should go to their client.
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Attorneys make final case to jurors in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing
The Georgia man’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after a graphic video of his death leaked online two months later.
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Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted of all charges in Kenosha shootings
He was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangering after killing two men and wounding a third in the shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.
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Rittenhouse trial arguments worry mental health advocates
Some of the last words jurors at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial heard before starting deliberations were about the mental health of Joseph Rosenbaum.
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Jury in Rittenhouse trial to resume after fresh mistrial request
In its second mistrial motion, the defense says it received an inferior copy of a potentially critical video from prosecutors.
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Jurors in Rittenhouse trial to return for Day 2 of deliberations
The case went to the jury after the judge, in an unusual move, allowed Rittenhouse to draw numbered slips that determined which of the 18 jurors who sat through the trial would deliberate.