Quick Glance: James Crumbley Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter
- James Crumbley, father of a Michigan school shooter, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Thursday.
- He was accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil.
- The jury verdict means that James Crumbley has joined Jennifer Crumbley as a cause of the killing of four students at Oxford High School in 2021, even without pulling the trigger.
- Defense attorney Mariell Lehman stated that James Crumbley is deeply affected by the events at the school. He could potentially face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Quick Glance: Journey of Healing for Ivy League Basketball Star
- Abbey Hsu survives a mass shooting and her father's death from COVID-19.
- Opting for a gap year, she embarks on a transformative road trip across the country with her girlfriend.
- Amid personal tragedies, Hsu finds solace in nature and discovers new dimensions beyond basketball.
- Through self-reflection and healing after challenging experiences, Abbey Hsu solidifies her determination to achieve success.
Quick Glance: A Florida jury absolves the Parkland school shooter of the death penalty.
- 13 October (Reuters) - A Florida jury opted on Thursday to spare Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people at a high school in the city of Parkland in 2018, the death sentence, instead recommending life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- Cruz pled guilty to premeditated murder last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Fort Lauderdale.
- According to jury foreperson Benjamin Thomas, one juror insisted on Cruz not receiving the death punishment because to his mental instability.
- Some family members were disappointed when the jury did not recommend the death penalty.
Quick Glance: Smith & Wesson sued over connection to July 4th parade mass shooting
- CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of the mass shooting at a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade and family members of those killed filed 11 lawsuits Wednesday against Smith & Wesson, the manufacturer of the rifle used in the attack, accusing the gunmaker of illegally targeting its ads at young men at risk of committing mass violence.
- Stephen Straus, Jackie Sundheim, and Nicolas Toledo, three of the seven victims killed at Highland Park, are among those suing.
- According to Ari Scharg, an attorney with the Chicago-based firm Edelson PC who represents Turnipseed, lawyers for the Highland Park victims are determined to take their cases to a jury.
Quick Glance: "Your attorneys messed up": Alex Jones confronted in Sandy Hook defamation trial with texts from his phone
- #AlexJones' attorney, Mark Bankston, told him that his attorney made a mistake and handed him Jones' entire cell phone history.
- Jones' attorney, Andino Reynal, argued during closing arguments that the plaintiffs failed to prove that Jones' acts and words caused actual harm, and that the trial lacked evidence of the harassment, pain, and reputation defamation that the parents claimed.
- "A COWARDLY DISPLAY": Alex Jones fails to testify during his Sandy Hook deposition.
- HOW MUCH WILL ALEX JONES PAY? : The trial has begun after a court determined that he defamed the Sandy Hook parents.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to the Sandy Hook family.
- These punitive damages are in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages he must pay to the mother and father of a 6-year-old boy slain in the 2012 shooting.
- Late Friday, jurors issued a decision against Alex Jones, ordering him to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of."
- The verdict concluded off a terrible trial for the conspiracy theorist, which included his own lawyers handing a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victim's family two years' worth of Jones' damaging text conversations.
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Quick Glance: Gun control: A family of a gunshot victim interrupts Biden's address
- According to media accounts, the man is the father of a high school massacre victim.
- The father of a gun violence victim interrupted US President Joe Biden's speech.
- A guy loudly interrupted Biden's speech Monday in the White House garden about reform for greater gun violence protections in the United States.
- Senators engaged in the bill, as well as victims' families, were invited to the occasion, where Biden praised a reform enacted approximately two weeks ago.
Quick Glance: Suspect in Chicago July 4 parade shooting planned attack for weeks, fled with crowd in women’s clothes
- Authorities claimed the man shot more than 70 bullets at random from a rooftop at people watching a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, on Monday, and then fled dressed in women's clothing to blend in with the panic-stricken crowd.
- After escaping the scene, the suspect drove to Wisconsin and returning to Illinois until being apprehended on Monday, according to authorities.
- Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said the 30,000-person city was still in shock.
- "Can you tell me what happened?"
- "How did someone become so angry, so hateful?" she wondered.
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Father of Highland Park shooting suspect speaks to ABC News following the massacre at a Fourth of July parade.