$500,000. what do you make of that? yeah. neil, there is the a question as to whether james and jennifer crumbley were flight risks, and i can tell you i believe that they were. what we know is that after the charges were announced by the prosecutor there, that last night that the crumbleys, james and jennifer, withdrew $4,000 from their account. they then were found in a building in detroit. you would have had to have been under a rock not to know that james and jennifer crumbley were wanted. they became fugitives from justice. the fbi, the u.s. marshal service and local law enforcement were looking for them. and as a result of that, the detroit the detroit police
Parents, at potentially life of in prison if found guilty on all of these manslaughter charges. each claims, the mother and the father, not guilty on each and all counts. the judge has set the bail it sounds like at about $500,000 each. normally with bail you d have to put up $50,000 at first. they are going to be monitored with some sort of gps quite attached the twice attached to them to make sure they are not a flight risk. so a lot to digest in the days that have followed this tragic school shooting in michigan and who knew what and when. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. we lead off with this story that s captivating the nation right now and what happens next. ironically, the parents are in the same jail as their son. let s go to steve harrigan who s been following all of this from the beginning. steve. reporter: neil, a dramatic arraignment there of the parents, each of whom now face four charges of involuntary
Wondering, too, in that meeting on the morning of the shooting, did the parents know that this particular gun was missing. neil: it was bought four days earlier for ethan and they would police would tell us you don t have that gun on you, in the backpack. and later on when the shooting transpired we don t know the exact timing, but at least the mother had been texting concerned, don t do it. the father later on presumably after getting wind of the shooting, suspecting and telling, calling police that he thinks it was his son. so, the timing is everything and we don t know the exact timeline, chief. right. neil: but i m wondering what their role would be. in they, in fact, knew that the gun was missing and drawn to the meeting at school, you would think that that would come up, that the parents would raise it out of abundance of concern. you know, neil, there
James crumbley along with his son ethan was at a gun dealership when they purchased the gun. we know that on the 27th that the mother posted that she was taking target practice with her son, and she mentioned that he had been given a christmas present. we know that the next time, on the9 29th there at school, and the teacher saw what she i saw on the phone of ethan crumbley, him searching for ammunition. she reported that to a school official who tried to reach the crumbleys. they were unsuccessful in reaching the crumbleys on the 29th, but then on the 30th ethan is in class, and a teacher noticed that they had, he had made certain drawings. and as a part of these drawings, one of the drawings he was crying out for help. the teachers gave that to the school officials.
Lot of questions and i agree, when did i know you brought it up earlier with ted, when did the mother send that text message, was it it sounds like it was done after the shooting incident. neil: right. and this was a response to, i don t know, they certainly didn t do what they should have done it appears, that should have been the first part of their conversation. neil: i should stress there are disputes on the timing. that s why i raised it. if it s after the shooting has begun it s one thing, if it s before it s another. what s unique and i wanted to pick your brain about this, the parents being brought up on charges, that s very, very rare, i think the last time it happened was back in 2000. what do you make of that, and prosecutors extended it to the parents? you know, it is rare, neil, and there s a couple of ways to look at it and certainly it would be pure speculation on my
Class searching for ammunition online the mother texted him lol don t get caught next time. most damning when the teacher found a disturbing drawing the 15-year-old drew in class of someone being shot by a handgun bleeding with the caption, the thoughts won t stop, help me. they called an emergency meeting and the parents said nothing about the fact that they bought their child a gun and that the child was returned to class they didn t want to bring him home. just two hours later that the shooting began. neil, back to you. neil: steve, i know their lawyer repeatedly said we re sorry we re here and meant to be at the arraignment and not trying to escape anything, but they did have $4,000 cash on them and they had withdrawn, they were 40 miles from where all of this happened. that s going to be a tough nut to crack there. i think you really just have to look at the facts. the lawyer says they re not
That they were discovered in the basement of an art warehouse on the east side of detroit, just a half mile from the border, that they d taken $4,000 out of an atm and she says that can t be trusted not to run. here is the prosecutor. these two individuals were found locked somewhere in a room hiding. these are not people that we can be assured that will return to court on their own. we got to hear briefly from both parents from this video screened arraignment and each time the mother had to respond to the four charges of involuntary manslaughter, whether she had to say not guilty or i understand, she basically just sobbed through those words, sobbing each time. the prosecutor laid out the role that the parents played in this shooting according to her, first the father bought the pistol for the 15-year-old boy. the mother trained with him. when the boy was caught in
Manslaughter. each of those charges could carry a penalty of up to 15 years. as far as this arraignment goes, it looks like the prosecutor got exactly what she wanted. she wanted $500,000 bail. she said these two are a flight risk. they missed their arraignment on friday, they were discovered after a manhunt that included the fbi and u.s. marshals as well as detroit police. they were found on the eastern side of detroit in a warehouse basement in hiding. they had gone to an atm, taken out $4,000, less than a mile from the canadian border. she said they re a flight risk and demanded that high bail. that s exactly what she got. the other drama was hearing the parents speak for the first time in this arraignment. the judge read out the charges one by one, the four slain students aged 17, 17, 16 and 14. each time the parents one at a time pleading not guilty, and the mother, jennifer crumblec, was sobbing audibly throughout that plea.
And yet we learn in this particular case ethan ethan cruy had a backpack with him the day of the shootings while he and his parents were sitting down with school administrators and/or teachers. i don t know the breakdown of who was meeting with him, andrew, but it doesn t seem that we learned much from what was going on with you a little more than three years ago. a 45 calls to the killer s house, never arrested. and similar, i don t know if you remember, neil, the killer from parkland, his mother brought him to the gun store and bought that semiautomatic rifle. the mother drove him to the gun store on his 18th birthday to buy that rifle. it s so similar, it s horrific, you know? it just brings chills to me talking about these parents now that ll never see their kids.