James and Jennifer Crumbley continue to deflect blame, the father of a victim of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting said at the Crumbleys’ sentencing Tuesday.
“The defendants, through their choices, through their indifference and gross negligence, enabled their son to murder my daughter Hana and three other children,” Steve St. Juliana, the father of Hana St. Juliana, said in a victim impact statement Tuesday.
“They chose to stay quiet. They chose to ignore the warning signs. And now, as we’ve heard through all of the objections, they continue to choose to blame everyone but themselves,” he said.
Steve St. Juliana said his daughter’s death “destroyed a large portion of my very soul.”
“I will never think back fondly on her high school and college graduations. I will never walk her down the aisle as she begins the journey of starting her own family. I am forever denied the chance to hold her or her future children in my arms,” he added.
St. Juliana said his position on the Crumbleys’ sentencing evolved throughout the trial as the defendants’ “defiance” increased. “Hana, Madisyn, Tate, and Justin are the ones who have lost everything — not the defendants,” he said before requesting the parents receive the maximum possible sentence.
Buck Myre, the father of victim Tate Myre, gave his impact statement following Steve St. Juliana. He was the last person to give an impact statement.