BREAKING: Father of Alleged Highland Park Gunman to Face Charges in Parade Mass Shooting
by helping his son get a gun license through the state's established process.
But the accused gunman's parents have been under scrutiny as the reeling community questions why they apparently supported their son's interest in guns only months after he reportedly threatened suicide and violence. Legal experts, however, said it's incredibly difficult to prove criminal charges against a shooter's parent or guardian.
"They have to show the parents aided and abetted crime in some way for there to be an accountability based charge," Paul Cain, a professor of law at Northern Illinois University, said."That’s the getaway car driver who didn't actually go in and rob the store at gunpoint ... but performed some action to allow that robbery to go forward."Families impacted by the shootingBut one exception has been moving through a Michigan state court.
In the Highland Park case, Crimo III faces 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery, representing those killed and wounded during the parade in Highland Park.
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