Mom, son texted about gun day before school shooting

By PAUL SANCYA and ED WHITE
Associated Press

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has listened to testimony as she seeks to determine if the parents of a teenager accused of killing four students at his high school should face trial. An investigator testified Tuesday that Jennifer Crumbley and her son, Ethan Crumbley, traded text messages a day before the shooting after he was caught looking up ammunition on his phone while at Oxford High School. She asked him if he showed teachers a picture of his gun, to which he replied that he didn’t. Jennifer and James Crumbley, her husband, are charged with involuntary manslaughter. They are accused of making a gun accessible to Ethan and failing to intervene when he showed signs of mental distress.