James, left, and Jennifer Crumbley are shown during the video arraignment of their son, Ethan Crumbley in Rochester Hills, Mich., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021.
James, left, and Jennifer Crumbley are shown during the video arraignment of their son, Ethan Crumbley in Rochester Hills, Mich., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021.ASSOCIATED PRESS
  • Jennifer and James Crumbley each pled not guilty on Saturday to four counts of involuntary manslaughter. 
  • They are each being held on a $500,000 bond after their attorneys argued they are not flight risks. 
  • The couple was set to be arraigned Friday afternoon but failed to appear and fled, setting off an hours-long police search. 

The parents of the Michigan high school shooting suspect who were charged with involuntary manslaughter pleaded not guilty at a hearing on Saturday morning, according to the Associated Press. 

Prosecutors announced that they charged Jennifer and James Crumbley on Friday. Authorities have identified the couple's 15-year-old son, Ethan, as a suspect in the shooting at Oxford High School on Tuesday that killed four students and injured seven other people.

The Crumbleys was declared fugitives before their arrest. They had been charged Friday morning with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter and were set to be arraigned Friday afternoon. When the Crumbleys failed to appear in court, they set off an hours-long search by law enforcement before they were arrested in Detroit early Saturday morning. 

The couple's 15-year-old son, Ethan Crumbley, had been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and a terrorism-related charge in relation to the shooting, which left four students dead and several others injured.

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