The lawsuit alleges that school officials 'failed the students at Oxford High School at virtually every turn' in the shooting that killed four students, an attorney representing the family said.
The family of two Oxford High School students has filed a lawsuit over the Nov. 30 shooting that killed four students and injured seven others, alleging everyone from teachers to administrators failed to keep the campus safe"at virtually every turn."
Riley, a senior, was shot in the neck, and Bella"narrowly escaped the bullets discharged towards her,""We have filed a federal lawsuit ... alleging that the counselors, teachers, the school administrators who failed the students at Oxford High School at virtually every turn, therefore violating the civil rights of the Oxford High School students who were injured and killed during the slaughter," Geoffrey Fieger, the attorney representing the family, said at a news conference.
The lawsuit once again spotlights the role of school officials in the events leading up to the shooting. Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald previously laid out concerns brought up by two separate teachers over the suspect's behavior in the classroom, including one incident that led to the school calling his parents in for a meeting hours before the shooting.
The school district has defended its staffers' actions, saying they were not informed by the suspect's parents that he had"direct access to a firearm or that they had recently purchased a firearm for him." In aon Saturday, Throne said school counselors who spoke to the suspect both times had concluded that he did not intend to harm himself or others, and the incidents were not elevated to the principal or assistant principal.
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