morning of the shooting, the next day, ethan crumbley s teacher came upon a sight that alarmed her she took a picture. the note contained the following. the drawing of a semiautomatic handgun pointed at the the words, quote, the thoughts won t stop, help me, end quote. and then a drawing of a bullet with the following words, quote, blood everywhere, end quote. between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is a drawing of a person who appears to have been shot twice and bleeding. below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji. further down of the drawing are the words, my life is useless and to the right of that are the words, quote, the world is dead, end quote. as a result, james and jennifer crumbley were immediately assembled to the school and a school counselor came to the classroom and removed the shooter and brought him to the office with his backpack. counselor obtained the drawing but the shooter had already altered it.
required to get their son into counseling within 48 hours. both games and jennifer crumbley failed to ask if he had his gun with him or where his gun was located and failed to inspect his backpack for the presence of the gun, which he had with him. games james and jennifer crumbley resisted the idea of their son leaving that day. he was returned to the classroom. let s remember the victims in this shooting. 17-year-old madisyn baldwin, 16-year-old tate myre, 14-year-old hanna st. julia and 17-year-old justin shilling remembered at a candle light vigil in downtown oxford just tonight. i m going to get to the latest from the sheriff michael bouchard. appreciate you joining us on cnn. give us the latest.
regard to these parents that was the sheriff s department that brought that to us and we decide decided we couldn t just charge the shooter. i know, don, you ve seen the horrible facts here. we have parents who not they weren t just negligent, they bought a weapon for their son. they gave him free access to it, and they had every reason to believe that he was dangerous. and, you know, i don t know if you had a chance to look or see the text messages that mom sent her son the day before he said. she said lol, i m not mad but don t get caught. jennifer crumbley sent it to
lookout or bolo alert releasing images. there they are on your scene, wanted, images of james and jennifer crumbley and there is a photo and a license plate number of the vehicle they may be driving. a black 2021 kia suv. the michigan plate number is dqb 5203. dqg 5203. they were last seen publicly apparently in the vehicle making a brief virtual appearance at their son s brief arraignment. law enforcement officials with drew $14,000 just today and their cell phones are turned off so they can t trace them. we re learning tonight jennifer crumbley took her soon ethan to a shooting range the weekend before the shooting. prosecutors were worried about the crumbleys evading law
their son s wednesday arraignment. law enforcement officials with drew $14,000 in michigan just today and their cell phones are turned off so they can t trace the cell phones. we re learning tonight jennifer crumbley took her soon ethan to a shooting range the weekend before the shooting. that source says that prosecutors were worried about the crumbleys evading law enforcement because they didn t have ties to the community and officials had trouble locating them once their son was being arraigned. two attorneys working with them say the couple left town on the night of the shooting, quote, for their own safety and that they re not fleeing. but where are they? why has no one heard from them? so that doesn t explain why they didn t show up for their arraignment. prosecutor karen mcdonald laying it out absolutely in chilling detail the red flags tuesday morning just hours before the shooting started. hear it for yourself right now. on november 30th, 21. the