Using cell phone data, forensic analyst Edward Wagrowski outlined James Crumbley's actions leading up to the school shooting during testimony Thursdaycontinues in a Michigan courtroom Friday, just weeks after his wife, Jennifer, was convicted in relation to their son's mass shooting at Oxford High School in 2021. Their son, Ethan Crumbley, killed four students and wounded seven others.
"My god. WTF," James Crumbley responded at 9:44 a.m., before adding that he was still waiting on their horse's veterinarian."We talked about it this morning. You talked to him?" James Crumbley responded before his wife asked him to call her. During that meeting, the Crumbleys were advised to take their son home and get him immediate mental health treatment, but the parents declined to do so, the counselor testified during Jennifer Crumbley's trial.
By 1:20 p.m., James Crumbley was at home, according to his location data. Wagrowski testified that the father was on the phone with his wife when she texted her then-boss: "The gun is gone and so are the bullets." In more than 20,000 texts exchanged between January and October 2021, Ethan detailed concerns for his own mental health and sent at least one video showing him handling a loaded gun, the investigator said. During that same time period Ethan exchanged less than 1,000 texts with other people combined, Wagrowski said.