Prosecutors accuse Jennifer Crumbley and her husband of treating their son and the weapon they bought him with such negligence that they are partly responsible for him killing classmates at Oxford High in 2021.
Defense attorneys wanted to forbid any testimony or video of the shooting, but the judge allowed it, so long as it centered on observations of the shooter’s actions.
So Prosecutor Karen McDonald objected when Crumbley and her attorney Shannon Smith audibly cried as security video from the crime scene was shown to the jury.
McDONALD: “It’s difficult and we’re doing it. And then to have not just the defendant...her lawyer...sit their sobbing...”
SMITH: “First of all I was not sobbing. And this is horrific...it’s horrific. That’s why we asked the court not to play it.”
The defense also argues texts from Crumbley saying that she was “on the run again” were sent because the couple feared for their safety. Those texts arrived at a time when Jennifer Crumbley and her husband were supposed to turn themselves over to police.
