‘Shooter’ parents charged

THE parents of the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of four students at a school in the US state of Michigan have pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges.

James and Jennifer Crumbley, who are said to have given their son Ethan a 9mm pistol, had been arrested hiding near the Canadian border.

Ethan has been charged with murder after Tuesday’s shooting at Oxford Township, 30 miles north of Detroit.