oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald says these parents need to be held accountable failing to take action that could have saved the lives of these four teenagers who their son is accused of shooting and the seven other injured, all could have ended if the parents had just acted on the knowledge they had. they knew they bought a gun for ethan crumbley the friday prior to the shooting. they were made aware of disturbing incidents, by two teachers seeing ethan crumbley looking for ammunition on the phone the day before the shooting. day of shooting a drawing depicting a violent act, a body, two gunshots in it bleeding. picture of a gun. these are warnings and indications the parents should have acted on knowing that he had access to this gun and so that is why this prosecutor says these parents in this case are criminally negligent and they should be charged. they should be held accountable.