In a rare move, the US attorney’s office is bringing charges against the parents of an underage gunman who allegedly gave him access to the murder weapon. The police are looking for the parents.
Washington – After the fatal shots in a school in the US state of Michigan, the police are looking for the parents of the alleged 15-year-old perpetrator.
Anyone who has information about the whereabouts of James and Jennifer C. should immediately dial 911, according to the Oakland sheriff’s search notice. You were wanted for manslaughter. Prosecutor Karen McDonald said on CNN: “I hope you are doing the right thing and facing up.” Should the parents evade the police, it is likely that they will have to answer for further allegations.
Parents, according to lawyers, not on the run
However, two lawyers representing the couple said James and Jennifer C. had left town for their safety and would be returning for a trial. On Thursday evening, the Oakland County attorney was told that the two would be available for an indictment, according to the attorney’s statement, from which CNN quoted, among other things. “Instead of communicating with us, the prosecutor held a press conference to announce the charges.” The couple are not on the run from prosecution.
McDonald said on Friday that the alleged 15-year-old perpetrator’s parents had been charged. James and Jennifer C. are each accused of manslaughter on four counts. The parents bought the murder weapon, allowed their underage son access to the pistol and ignored warnings, said McDonald. Charges against the parents of a perpetrator in such an act of violence in schools are very rare, but in this case the facts are “egregious,” she said. “What I’m trying to do is promote a policy of deterrence.”
Terror charges against 15-year-olds
According to police, the 15-year-old killed four students on Tuesday with the weapon that his father had bought days earlier. He also injured six students and a teacher. The prosecution assumes an intentional act. The tenth grader is charged, among other things, with fatal terrorism and quadruple homicide. Regarding the terrorist charge, McDonald said that in Michigan an act resulting in death against a community of people was a prerequisite.
McDonald said father James bought the gun on November 26 in the presence of the son. On the same day, the son posted a photo of it on social media with the comment “Today I got my new beauty,” said McDonald. In his high school in Oxford, north of the metropolis of Detroit, the son was caught by a teacher while he was looking for ammunition on the Internet. The school informed the mother by phone and email, but received no answer, said McDonald. The mother then wrote the following SMS to the son: “LOL – I’m not mad. You have to learn not to get caught. “
Disturbing drawing
On the morning of the deed, a teacher found a drawing on the later shooter that she found so disturbing that she took a photo of it. According to the prosecutor, a drawing of the weapon could be seen on it. It also said: “The thoughts don’t want to stop. Help me. ”Next to the drawing of a sphere there were the words“ blood everywhere ”, elsewhere it said:“ the world is dead ”. The parents were then immediately summoned to the school. The son changed the drawing before meeting the parents. In the meeting, the parents did not ask the son if he had his gun with him, McDonald said.
“The idea of a parent reading these words and knowing that their son had access to a deadly weapon they gave him is unimaginable. And I think it’s criminal, ”McDonald told journalists.
Murder weapon stored in a drawer
The parents refused to take their son home, so he went back to the classroom. They wouldn’t have searched his backpack for the gun either. When it became known that someone at the school was shooting at people, the mother wrote her son a message saying, “Don’t do it”. The father then drove home and called the police a short time later and stated that his weapon was missing, as the prosecutor described. The gun was stored in an unlocked drawer in the parents’ bedroom, McDonald said. “Gun owners have a responsibility,” she warned.
Fatal incidents continue to occur in the United States because shooters open fire in schools. Gun laws in the United States vary from state to state, but firearms such as pistols and assault rifles are usually relatively easy to come by. Stricter gun laws usually fail because of the Republicans in Congress and the powerful gun lobby. US President Joe Biden has announced measures to curb armed violence, but so far without concrete results. dpa
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