'You Failed as Parents': Family of Mich. School Shooting Victims Speak Out at Sentencing of Gunman's Parents

James and Jennifer Crumbley were both sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter

The families of the victims killed in the 2021 school shooting in Oxford, Mich., spoke out at a sentencing hearing for James and Jennifer Crumbley — the parents of convicted shooter Ethan Crumbley — who were both convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

The April 9 hearing featured emotional victim impact statements from the family members, several of whom addressed James and Jennifer directly. On Nov. 30, 2021, the couple’s son shot and killed four students: Hana St. Juliana, 14, Tate Myre, 16, Justin Shilling, 17, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and injured seven other people at Oxford High School.

After juries found that the shooter’s parents failed to take actions that could have prevented the shooting, Judge Cheryl Matthews sentenced them each to 10 to 15 years in prison, the maximum they faced. Last year, their son was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to 24 charges, including murder and terrorism.

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Nicole Beausoleil, the mother of Madisyn, spoke candidly in front of the court at James and Jennifer’s sentencing hearing, which was live streamed by the Associated Press.

“You failed as parents. The punishment you face will never be enough,” Beausoleil said, referring to the Crumbleys. “It will never bring her back, it will never be a loss that you have suffered and it will never heal the pain. Because one day you’re going to be able to see your son, visit him, hear his voice, possibly laugh, maybe see him grow. I will never see that again. The so-called loss you say you have suffered does not even compare to the loss of a child.”

Beausoleil, like the other speakers at the hearing, requested that the judge hand the shooter’s parents the maximum allowable sentence.

“Those decisions that you made ultimately took my daughter’s life,” Beausoleil said earlier in her statement. “Because you decided you didn’t want to parent and listen to your son, you took the right away for me to be a mother.”

Reina St. Juliana, whose sister Hana was killed in the shooting, also spoke at the hearing.

“Our 10-year-old little brother had to learn how to write a eulogy for his sister before he even learned how to write essays,” Reina St. Juliana said. “On Nov. 30, 2021, all our parents did was send us off to school. Yet the next time they’d see Hana is to recognize her lifeless body in a medical examiner’s office.”

The morning of the shooting, Reina said she met up with her sister and still remembers the last time she’d ever see Hana.

“I didn’t say goodbye,” Reina recalled. “I never got to say goodbye. I never got to remind her that I love her, that she’s my everything, the person I want to walk through life with side-by-side.”

Craig Shilling, the father of victim Justin Shilling, had pointed words for the shooter’s parents.

“The blood of our children is on your hands,” he said.

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The gun used by the shooter was a gift to him from his parents, which he received not long before the shooting. During the separate trials of James and Jennifer, prosecutors pointed to a meeting held with school officials the morning of the shooting to discuss a drawing their son had made with a gun. The meeting ended abruptly and their son remained in school.

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Both James and Jennifer were ultimately convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald expressed satisfaction with the maximum sentence being handed down.

“If it were not for the actions of James and Jennifer Crumbley, the shooter would have never had access to the gun he used to take four innocent lives inside Oxford High School. We owed it to the victims and their families to pursue the maximum penalty,” McDonald said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “Nothing will bring their children back, but the Judge recognized the suffering these defendants caused, and she acknowledged the victims and their families. The sentence today provides the highest level of accountability under the law, and that’s appropriate.”

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