Oxford School Shooting Was “Entirely Preventable” Attorney In $200M Lawsuit Claims

A family of two daughters who were survivors of the Oxford High School has filed two $100 million lawsuits that allege the school had the means and opportunity but did not stop the attack on Nov. 30, 2021, which killed 4 students and injured 7 more.

They filed the two suits in Michigan against the school district and its employees, including Superintendent Timothy Throne, High School Principal Steven Wolf, and Dean Ryan Moore.

According to The Detroit News, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said Thursday “the horror of November 30, 2021, was entirely preventable . . . At Oxford High School, they'll search your backpack if they think you're vaping, but they refused to suspend or search a student who wrote what we now know was reams of homicidal notes and scenes of classroom slaughter and mania.”

The families are seeking $100 million per lawsuit in order to make the financial cost of the events so high that the demand for change increases.

Ethan Crumbley is the 15-year-old high school student of Oxford who committed the attack. He is currently being tried as an adult and has pleaded not guilty. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, have also been charged with involuntary manslaughter. They too have pled not guilty.

Mere hours before the shooting, Ethan and his parents appeared before school officials who were concerned about behavior in the classroom. Ethan also made multiple social media posts leading up to the shooting that parents of the school district made Principal Wolf aware of, prompting Wolf to send an email on Nov. 16, which is cited in the lawsuit.

“I know I'm being redundant here, but there is absolutely no threat at the HS … large assumptions were made from a few social media posts, then the assumptions evolved into exaggerated rumors,” Wolf wrote.