Jennifer Crumbley lawyer pushes evidence shooter was watching horror movies during texts – By Tresa Baldas (Detroit Free Press) / Jan 30, 2024
For more than two years, the prosecution has portrayed the Oxford High School shooter as a troubled teen who was spiraling downward, hallucinating and begging his parents for help, largely relying on texts he sent his friend late at night.
But what jurors in his mom’s historic case haven’t heard — and may not hear at all — is that the teen was sending these late-night texts to his friend while watching horror movies. At least that’s what he told a psychiatrist, according to court records and prior testimony.
Ethan Crumbley also allegedly told a psychiatrist that he lied to his friend when he texted that he asked his parents for help, and that they ignored him, according to court records.
But the jury in Jennifer Crumbley’s trial may not hear that, which has the mother’s lawyer pleading for intervention.
