Attorney: Security guard didn’t try to stop school shooting
2 years, 4 months ago

Attorney: Security guard didn’t try to stop school shooting

Associated Press  

OXFORD, Mich. — An armed security officer told investigators she thought an active shooting at a Michigan high school was a drill and that one of the bleeding students simply was wearing “really good makeup,” an attorney suing the school district said Wednesday. Attorney Ven Johnson said he is asking a judge to add the security officer’s name to a lawsuit he filed in January against Oxford Community Schools. Johnson said in an amended complaint that school surveillance video he recently reviewed shows the security officer “casually walking around in the hallway” during the Nov. 30 shooting at the high school about 30 miles north of Detroit. He wrote in the complaint that the officer also “saw Tate Myre’s body on the floor with him bleeding to death and informed the investigators that she thought he had ‘really good makeup’ on.” Timothy Mullins, an attorney for the school district, dismissed Johnson’s allegations as “untrue,” suggesting that not only did the security officer not believe the shooting was a drill but suggested she acted courageously.

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Uvalde school officer charged over actions during Robb Elementary shooting set to appear in court
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Uvalde school officer charged over actions during Robb Elementary shooting set to appear in court

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A former Uvalde school police …

Investigation finds a threat assessment should have been done before the Oxford High School shooting
1 year, 1 month ago

Investigation finds a threat assessment should have been done before the Oxford High School shooting

Associated Press  

OXFORD, Mich. — Officials with Michigan’s Oxford High School should have conducted a threat assessment into Ethan Crumbley’s behavior prior to a shooting that left four students dead and others wounded, an independent investigation concluded. Crumbley’s conduct included viewing bullets, watching violent video on his cellphone during class, and writing statements like “blood everywhere,” a more than 500-page report said. …

Teen arrested after guard shot breaking up fight outside a New York high school
1 year, 3 months ago

Teen arrested after guard shot breaking up fight outside a New York high school

India Today  

A 16-year-old was arrested for shooting a school security guard who was breaking up a fight outside a high school football game in central New York, police said. The security guard was shot in the back of the head Saturday afternoon outside Proctor High School in Utica. A game with Binghamton High School was in its final moments when the …

Judge: Oxford Schools, staff immune from shooting lawsuits
1 year, 9 months ago

Judge: Oxford Schools, staff immune from shooting lawsuits

Associated Press  

PONTIAC, Mich. — A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan also dismissed Oxford Community Schools from civil lawsuits related to the shooting, stating that the district and staff are protected by …

Prosecutor gets case involving 6-year-old who shot teacher
1 year, 10 months ago

Prosecutor gets case involving 6-year-old who shot teacher

Associated Press  

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Detectives in the Virginia city where a 6-year-old shot his teacher have finished their criminal investigation and turned it over to the local prosecutor’s office for review, the police chief for Newport News said Tuesday. The boy used his mother’s 9mm handgun when he shot and wounded teacher Abby Zwerner as she taught her class at …

Parents at school where boy, 6, shot teacher prepare to sue
1 year, 10 months ago

Parents at school where boy, 6, shot teacher prepare to sue

Associated Press  

NORFOLK, Va. — The families of two students at a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot and wounded his teacher have filed notices of potential legal action against the school system over trauma they say the shooting inflicted on their children. A letter from the other child’s family cites “injuries sustained during a school shooting on January 6, 2023.” …

Students sue for review, changes after Oxford High shooting
2 years, 6 months ago

Students sue for review, changes after Oxford High shooting

Associated Press  

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — About 20 students at a Michigan high school where four students were killed in a mass shooting say their constitutional rights to safety and education have been violated and that they want changes to ensure security at school, a law firm representing them said Friday. Ethan Crumbley, 16, has been charged with murder and terrorism in …

Uvalde school police chief defends Texas shooting response
2 years, 6 months ago

Uvalde school police chief defends Texas shooting response

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments, published Thursday, that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. Pete Arredondo, the police …

Judge grants request that school shooter’s name not be used
2 years, 9 months ago

Judge grants request that school shooter’s name not be used

Associated Press  

A judge has granted a prosecutor’s request that a Michigan teen charged in a fatal school shooting not be named in court during his parents’ separate criminal trial. Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl Matthews in her ruling Monday ordered that Ethan Crumbley’s name not be spoken openly in court or used in writing in the case against James and Jennifer …

Michigan school shooting suspect to pursue insanity defense
2 years, 10 months ago

Michigan school shooting suspect to pursue insanity defense

Associated Press  

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — A teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense, his lawyers said in a notice filed Thursday as he, his parents and school officials faced a new lawsuit over the attack at Oxford High School. The AP left a voicemail Thursday afternoon seeking comment from Ethan Crumbley’s attorney, Paulette …

Michigan school shooting suspect to pursue insanity defense
2 years, 10 months ago

Michigan school shooting suspect to pursue insanity defense

LA Times  

A teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense, his lawyers said in a notice filed Thursday as he, his parents and school officials faced a new lawsuit over the attack at Oxford High School. McDonald has said that James and Jennifer Crumbley committed “egregious” acts, from buying a gun on Black …

Michigan school shooting: Superintendent calls claims in lawsuit ‘irresponsible and false’
2 years, 11 months ago

Michigan school shooting: Superintendent calls claims in lawsuit ‘irresponsible and false’

CNN  

CNN — The superintendent of the district where four students were shot dead at a Michigan high school posted an open letter countering claims made in a lawsuit accusing the district of not doing enough to prevent the attack. Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne’s letter on Tuesday decried what he said were “numerous irresponsible and false allegations and inaccurate …

Lawsuit alleges Oxford High School shooter brought ammunition to school the day before shooting
2 years, 11 months ago

Lawsuit alleges Oxford High School shooter brought ammunition to school the day before shooting

CNN  

CNN — A lawsuit filed on behalf of two survivors of the deadly Oxford High School shooting in Michigan accuses the school district and a number of its employees of not doing enough to prevent the attack that left four students dead, despite multiple red flags. The next day, according to the lawsuit, the high school sent an email to …

Michigan school district sets new safety plan after shooting
3 years ago

Michigan school district sets new safety plan after shooting

Associated Press  

OXFORD, Mich. — Administrators in a Michigan school district where four students were shot to death at its high school announced Tuesday that a zero tolerance policy toward threats was being adopted, as well as other initiatives aimed at improving safety. The Oxford Community Schools Board of Education was told of the changes at its board meeting — two weeks …

School district faces two $100M suits after Oxford shootings
3 years ago

School district faces two $100M suits after Oxford shootings

Associated Press  

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — The parents of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at Oxford High School during a mass shooting that left four students dead filed a pair of lawsuits seeking $100 million each against a Michigan school district, saying Thursday that the violence could have been prevented. The morning before the shooting school officials met with …

Michigan school shooting survivors sue school district
3 years ago

Michigan school shooting survivors sue school district

Al Jazeera  

The lawsuit accuses school officials of ‘reckless disregard’ of students’ safety after four killed in the November 30 attack. The parents of two survivors of last week’s deadly school shooting in the US state of Michigan are suing the local school district and several school officials, accusing them of allowing the gunman to “carry out his murderous rampage”. Geoffrey Fieger, …

Michigan attorney general will review Oxford school shooting
3 years ago

Michigan attorney general will review Oxford school shooting

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday her office will review events that occurred before the mass shooting that left four students dead at Oxford High School, despite the district’s rejection of her offer to be its third-party investigator. I really do think it’s incumbent upon the Michigan Department of Attorney General and the top law enforcement official in …

Oxford High School: Michigan shooting could have been prevented, prosecutor says
3 years ago

Oxford High School: Michigan shooting could have been prevented, prosecutor says

CNN  

CNN — One week after a school shooting in Michigan that killed four students and led to the manhunt and arrest of the suspect’s parents, officials are wondering how the tragedy could have been prevented. His mother, Jennifer, posted about the gun on social media, calling it “his new Christmas present.” “All of this could have been prevented if he …

Michigan school shooting: Administrators had a right to search Ethan Crumbley’s backpack but failed to do so
3 years ago

Michigan school shooting: Administrators had a right to search Ethan Crumbley’s backpack but failed to do so

The Independent  

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Prosecutor criticizes school over run-up to mass shooting
3 years ago

Prosecutor criticizes school over run-up to mass shooting

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Oxford High School shooting: School district releases details of key events
3 years ago

Oxford High School shooting: School district releases details of key events

CNN  

CNN — Days after a 15-year-old student allegedly killed four classmates at a Michigan high school, the district’s superintendent has requested an independent investigation into the incident – the deadliest school shooting at a US K-12 campus since May 2018. The student told a school counselor that “the drawing was part of a video game he was designing and informed …

Michigan's attorney general wants to investigate the Oxford school shooting
3 years ago

Michigan's attorney general wants to investigate the Oxford school shooting

NPR  

Michigan's attorney general wants to investigate the Oxford school shooting Enlarge this image toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP Paul Sancya/AP The Michigan attorney general has offered to investigate the events leading up to the shooting last week that took the lives of four high school students. "We have reached out to the attorney for the Oxford Community School District and have …

Superintendent: Teen Was Called Into Office Before Shooting, But No Discipline Needed
3 years ago

Superintendent: Teen Was Called Into Office Before Shooting, But No Discipline Needed

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A teenager accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school was called to the office before the shooting but “no discipline was warranted,” the superintendent said Thursday in his first extended remarks since the tragedy. Tim Throne, leader of Oxford Community Schools, said Oxford High School looks like a “war zone” …

Michigan school shooting suspect was sent to office but discipline not needed, official says
3 years ago

Michigan school shooting suspect was sent to office but discipline not needed, official says

LA Times  

A well-wisher kneels to pray at a memorial to the victims of a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich. A teenager accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school was called to the office before the shooting but “no discipline was warranted,” the superintendent said Thursday in his first extended remarks since the tragedy. …

Student kills 3, wounds 8 at Michigan school: Authorities
3 years ago

Student kills 3, wounds 8 at Michigan school: Authorities

India TV News  

Highlights Investigators are trying to determine a motive for shooting at Oxford High School McCabe said he was aware of allegations circulating on social media McCabe also downplayed the significance of an incident in early November A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students and wounding eight other people, including at least one …

DA: No charges against officer in Tennessee school shooting
3 years, 8 months ago

DA: No charges against officer in Tennessee school shooting

Associated Press  

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The police officer who shot and killed a student in a Tennessee high school will not face criminal charges, a district attorney announced Wednesday. Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen said she determined the shooting of 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson Jr. by Knoxville police Officer Jonathon Clabough was “justifiable” under Tennessee’s self-defense law. The body camera …

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