James Crumbley trial’s opening statements put focus on whether son’s shooting was preventable

PONTIAC, Mich. — Prosecutors in the criminal trial of James Crumbley, the father of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley, opened their case Thursday by showing jurors an image of the gun’s unused cable lock still in its original packaging — teasing out evidence meant to suggest he failed to prevent the looming rampage.”That nightmare was preventable and it was foreseeable,” Oakland County prosecutor Marc Keast said of the shooting spree at Oxford High School in November 2021 that left four dead and several wounded.”There is no claim that James Crumbley gave his son that firearm…