A New Lawsuit Accuses Michigan School of ‘Gross Negligence’
A lawsuit filed against school officials in Oxford, Mich., over a mass shooting in November that left four teenagers dead was amended last week to include 11 new counts, accusing officials and educators of “gross negligence” that caused “serious and permanent physical and emotional trauma.”
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, named Oxford Community School District superintendent Timothy Throne, Oxford High School principal Steven Wolf, dean of students Ryan Moore and other staff members, according to a copy posted online by NBC affiliate WDIV.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two Oxford students who survived the shooting, argues the defendants should have known that the suspected shooter, Ethan Crumbley, 15, was unstable and a threat to others.
