How Jennifer Crumbley’s case could change America’s response to mass shootings
Manuel Oliver says Jennifer Crumbley’s conviction is something to “celebrate”.
“I do think — and I hope — that this will start a new wave of accountability that expands to anyone that is somehow responsible,” he tells The Independent.
To him, as the father of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in the Parkland mass school shooting, the conviction of the mother of a school shooter marks something of a turning point.
It suggests that “we’re looking at these [cases] in a new way,” he says.
No one is “complaining about the verdict”, he adds. “So we all agree, all gun owners…and of course, people like me” that Crumbley “is responsible in some way.”
In a landmark case on Tuesday, was found guilty of after her son, , opened fire inside Oxford High School in November 2021, killing four of his classmates and injuring seven other victims.
