{"id":1105211,"date":"2021-12-10T07:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105211"},"modified":"2021-12-10T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:29:20","slug":"parents-of-oxford-school-shooting-victims-file-100m-lawsuits-against-michigan-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-of-oxford-school-shooting-victims-file-100m-lawsuits-against-michigan-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of Oxford School Shooting Victims File $100M Lawsuits Against Michigan School District"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-of-oxford-school-shooting-victims-file-100m-lawsuits-against-michigan-school-district%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Two lawsuits seeking $100 million each have been filed against a Michigan school district, its superintendent, and others after&nbsp;four students were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shootings-michigan-4e1a14622ed8c5a6bcc7e8da88e3c33d\">fatally shot<\/a>&nbsp;and others wounded at Oxford High School, a lawyer announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits were filed in federal court in Detroit by Jeffrey and Brandi Franz on behalf of their daughters, Riley, a 17-year-old senior who was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/crime-shootings-education-michigan-school-shootings-a734bfa163d0e761b1eac3031ba0569a\">shot in the neck<\/a> in the November 30 shooting, and her sister Bella, a 14-year-old ninth grader who was next to her at the time, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Named in the suits are the Oxford Community School District, Superintendent Timothy Throne, Oxford High School principal Steven Wolf, the dean of students, two counselors, two teachers, and a staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Ten students and a teacher were shot at the school in Oxford Township, roughly 30 miles north of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old sophomore at the school, was arrested at the school and has been charged as an adult with murder, terrorism, and other crimes. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, later were charged with involuntary manslaughter for giving him access to the weapon, which they purchased for him just four days before the shooting and which the mother described in a social media post as her son\u2019s \u201cnew Xmas present.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Oakland County Prosector Karen McDonald also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/03\/search-on-for-2-parents-charged-in-michigan-school-shooting\/\">faulted<\/a> the parents for failing to alert school officials about the gun they had purchased for their son and for resisting their son\u2019s removal from the school on the day of the shooting when school officials called them into a meeting over a disturbing drawing their son had made. The couple was arrested last Saturday following an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/03\/search-on-for-2-parents-charged-in-michigan-school-shooting\/\">intense manhunt<\/a> after they fled law enforcement. Detroit police eventually apprehended the couple in a commercial building in East Detroit, not far from the Canadian border, where they were hiding after withdrawing $4,000 from an ATM earlier that day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19009810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19009810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-ethan-jennifer-crumbley-ap.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mugshots of James Crumbley (left), Ethan Crumbley (center), and Jennifer Crumbley (left). (Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last Saturday, Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/crime-shootings-education-michigan-detroit-90c9cd22e68a483166b6a902aa4b8170\">called<\/a> for a third party to investigate events that led to the deadly school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Throne said in a statement that he called for the outside investigation because parents have asked questions about \u201cthe school\u2019s version of events leading up to the shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s critically important to the victims, our staff, and our entire community that a full and transparent accounting be made,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Throne also gave more details about the school\u2019s interactions with the 15-year-old student who killed four of his classmates and wounded seven others. According to Throne, the student told guidance counselors that his drawing of a bullet with the words \u201cblood everywhere\u201d above a person who appeared to have been shot along with the words \u201cmy life is useless\u201d and \u201cthe world is dead\u201d was part of a video game design. The disturbing image was discovered by a teacher the day of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Throne said that the teen\u2019s demeanor was calm when the school\u2019s staff contacted his parents that day to have a meeting at the school hours before the shooting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said the teen\u2019s parents did not notify counselors that they had recently purchased a gun for their son. The day before the shooting a teacher discovered the teen searching for ammo on his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the fact that the child had no prior disciplinary infractions, the decision was made he would be returned to the classroom rather than sent home to an empty house,\u201d Throne said. \u201cThese incidents remained at the guidance counselor level and were never elevated to the principal or assistant principal\u2019s office. While we understand this decision has caused anger, confusion, and prompted understandable questioning, the counselors made a judgment based on their professional training and clinical experience and did not have all the facts we now know.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18969266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18969266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21335743377163.png\" alt=\"Mourners grieve at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at Oxford High School, killing four students and wounding seven other people on Tuesday. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners grieve at Oxford High School in Oxford, MI, on Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18983874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18983874 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21335743185779.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents grieve at a memorial at Oxford High School in Oxford, MI, on December 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18957634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18957634 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236922178.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold candles during a vigil after a shooting at Oxford High School at Lake Pointe Community Church in Lake Orion, Michigan on November 30, 2021. (JEFF KOWALSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The school administrators have faced increased criticism for not notifying the sheriff\u2019s office immediately after a teacher first alerted administrators to the student\u2019s disturbing drawing the day of the shooting and his cellphone search for ammo the day before the shooting. Had they done so, law enforcement could have removed the student from the school grounds and made sure he had no access to weapons, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/03\/sheriff-says-he-would-have-taken-guns-school-alerted-him\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s resource officer should have been in the meeting school officials had with the student and parents the day of the shooting, Bouchard noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have very much wanted our school resource officer in on that meeting,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cHe would have taken protocols we have in place to have [the suspect] removed from the school until action has happened. For example, the school told him he had to be in counseling, we would have had him removed from school until that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, personal-injury lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/crime-shootings-education-michigan-school-shootings-86d393a90807557c0648e7f9f9bedba4\">have expressed doubt<\/a> that the school district could be successfully sued for letting Crumbley stay in school. That\u2019s because Michigan\u2019s governmental immunity laws set a high bar to wring liability out of public schools and other arms of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to show that the administration or faculty members were grossly negligent, meaning they had a reckless disregard for whether an injury was likely to take place,\u201d attorney A. Vince Colella <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oxford-high-school-shooting-shootings-lawsuits-michigan-detroit-04b83406afda06b15f44f8bf5cbf3c0b\">told<\/a> the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s handling of events leading up to the shooting might meet that standard, according to a Michigan attorney who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/oakland-county\/2021\/12\/09\/oxford-school-shooting-survivors-filing-lawsuits\/6445469001\/\">spoke<\/a> with the <em>Detroit News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Young, an attorney representing a number of women suing Eastern Michigan University over the alleged coverup of sexual assaults, told the <em>Detroit News<\/em> that the facts of the Oxford High School shooting reveal it to be \u201ca state-created liability\u201d in his opinion. \u201cThey had all of the tools to prevent this and were in a very unique position to stop this had they just used reasonable care.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16115444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16115444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/doctor-sexual-abuse-msu-march-2020-file-photo-michigan-attorney-dana-nessel-addresses-media.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel at a news conference in Lansing, MI, on March 5, 2020. (AP Photo\/David Eggert)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The school district rejected an offer from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to be its third-party investigator. However, Nessel <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/crime-shootings-education-michigan-detroit-24b91848e24e967619fb169770979e17\">said<\/a> on Tuesday that her office would still be conducting its own review of the school\u2019s actions preceding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we can\u2019t do is nothing. It\u2019s not appropriate,\u201d Nessel, a Democrat, said. \u201cI really do think it\u2019s incumbent upon the Michigan Department of Attorney General and the top law enforcement official in the state to conduct a further review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nessel said the review could show what policies, if any, might need to be changed to prevent this kind of tragedy in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really might need to revise the way that all school districts operate,\u201d she said, noting that the investigation could reveal that the school was following all of the established protocols but \u201cthose just fall short.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this story. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two lawsuits seeking $100 million each have been filed against a Michigan school district, its superintendent, and others after\u00a0four students were fatally shot\u00a0and others wounded at Oxford High School, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}