PONTIAC, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The mother of the Oxford High School shooter, who is now serving a life sentence without the chance for parole, received a small win in court on Wednesday.

Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl Matthews ruled that Jennifer Crumbley’s alleged extramarital affairs will not be admissible as evidence against her. In addition, her son’s bird-torture hobby will not be allowed as evidence either. Her then 15-year-old son brought a mutilated bird head into the school bathroom on the day of the November 30, 2021 shooting where he killed four students and injured seven other people.

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Judge Matthews called the “bird evidence”  irrelevant, and noted it is “unfairly prejudicial.”

Prosecutors are working to hold James and Jennifer Crumbley accountable for their son’s actions. They are the first parents in America to be charged in connection to a mass school shooting. Each are facing four involuntary manslaughter charges in separate trials. They argue the Crumbleys ignored their son’s cries for help, bought him the gun in the shooting, and refused to take him home from school the morning of the shooting after a meeting with the administration regarding their son’s behavior.