GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – In an unprecedented legal maneuver, the parents of a teenager killed in a 2023 high-speed crash in Grosse Pointe are using a nearly century-old Michigan statute to pursue criminal charges against the driver’s mother, after prosecutors declined to do so.
The case has sparked a complex legal battle, pitting private citizens’ rights against prosecutorial discretion.
A Grosse Pointe Farms judge recently authorized involuntary manslaughter charges against Elizabeth Tague, whose 16-year-old son was driving a BMW at 105 mph when he crashed, killing passenger Flynn MacKrell…