The convicted father of the Oxford High School shooter said in jailhouse phone calls that he wanted to ruin the prosecutor in the case against him and that she would be going to hell soon, sources confirmed.
James Crumbley made the comments to his sister while his case was pending, the sources close to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed.
The new details were first reported Monday by the Detroit Free Press.
A Michigan jury last week found Crumbley guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting his son carried out, killing four classmates.
James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer Crumbley, who was convicted on the same charges at a separate trial in February, are the first parents in America to be charged for a school shooting committed by their child.
James Crumbley allegedly told his sister that he was going to make it his goal in life to destroy Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald, saying that she was going to hell soon, that she better be scared and that she was done, the sources confirmed.
“There’s a disagreement about what was said and the nature of that stuff,” Crumbley’s defense attorney, Mariell Lehman, said Monday, declining to expand on her characterization of Crumbley’s conversations and adding that lawyers on each side agreed to try to keep it out of the media.
Lehman declined to comment further after NBC News confirmed the details of what Crumbley was alleged to have told his sister.
Asked about the threats Friday, McDonald said that “he made a lot of threats” but that she didn’t want to elaborate because she didn’t want to give him more attention.
“I just don’t think it’s important to talk about,” McDonald said then.
Word of the alleged threatening statements first emerged publicly in the middle of Crumbley’s trial. On March 7, the judge signed an order after the prosecution and defense attorneys reached an agreement to restrict his jail communications.
For the rest of the trial, Crumbley could talk…
Read the full article here
