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Cop says Ethan Crumbley texted friend: ‘I’m mentally and physically dying’

Months before he allegedly blasted gunfire through his school, Ethan Crumbley was begging for help.

“I am mentally and physically dying,” he texted a friend one night, according to prosecutors.

It was after midnight. And the 15-year-old was reaching out to a peer about the demons in his head — the ones he said he saw throwing bowls around his house.

And the voices.

“I am going to ask my parents to go to the doctor tomorrow … but this time I’m going to tell them about the voices,” Ethan Crumbley texted that spring evening, officials said.

The text message was among several disclosed in court Tuesday during a hearing for the teenager’s parents, who prosecutors allege are partly to blame for the deadly Nov. 30 mass shooting at Oxford High School.

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