ROCHESTER HILLS , Feb 9 — A Michigan judge held a preliminary hearing yesterday to decide whether prosecutors had enough evidence to bring involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of a teenager accused of killing four high school students.
The couple wore prison clothing as they sat in handcuffs at the defendant’s desk in the courtroom. Andrew Smith, Jennifer Crumbley’s supervisor at the real estate company where she worked, took the stand. He described his interactions with her the day of the shooting. The case appears to be the first time that parents of a teenage school shooter have been charged for involvement in their offspring’s alleged crimes.