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Jennifer Crumbley, mother of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, would sometimes refer to her son as an “oopsie baby,” according to witness testimony Monday.
Jennifer Crumbley is on trial for four counts of involuntary manslaughter after her son fatally shot four students – Tate Myre, 16, Justin Shilling,16, Hana St. Juliana, 14, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17 – and injured seven other victims at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021, when he was just 15 years old.
“There was nothing truly positive when she was talking about him,” Kira Pennock, who owns a farm in Michigan where Jennifer Crumbley once boarded her horses, said on the witness stand Monday. “There were quite a few times that she had voiced that he was an ‘oopsie baby.'”
Pennock also said Jennifer called her son “weird” and said she wished he did “normal kid things,” as FOX 2 Detroit first reported.
Immediately after the shooting in November 2021, the Crumbleys allegedly fled their Oxford home as Michigan authorities issued a be-on-the-lookout alert for the couple. They were considered fugitives before U.S. Marshals apprehended them on Dec. 4, 2021.
Ethan Robert Crumbley, left, and his parents Jennifer and James Crumbley (Oakland County Sheriff)
Their attorneys said they fled for their own safety and turned themselves in several days later and have argued the parents could not have predicted their son’s plan to commit a mass shooting.
Ethan said during his December 2023 sentencing that his parents are not to blame because they “did not know,” and the now-17-year-old did not “tell them” what he planned to do.
