The legal fallout comes one week after prosecutors say 15-year-old student Ethan Crumbley shot and killed four students and wounded seven others.
Detroit — Survivors of the mass shooting at Oxford High School are filing two $100 million lawsuits against the school district and employees, lawyer Geoffrey Fieger said Thursday. The announcement comes more than one week after prosecutors say Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old alleged shooter, killed four students while wounding six other students and a teacher. Fieger filed one federal lawsuit on behalf of Oxford students and siblings Riley Franz,17, a senior, and Bella Franz,14, a freshman. Riley was shot in the neck while next to Bella during the attack. That lawsuit accuses school officials of failing to stop an attack that inflicted physical and psychological injuries on students and marked the start of what is expected to be a flurry of lawsuits against the district in the wake of the country’s deadliest school shooting since 2018. Defendants listed in the federal lawsuit filed early Thursday include Superintendent Timothy Throne, High School Principal Steven Wolf, Dean Ryan Moore and unidentified counselors, teachers and staff members. «The horror of November 30,2021 was entirely preventable,» Fieger said in a statement Thursday. Fieger will discuss the lawsuits during an 11 a.m. Thursday news conference at his Southfield law office. Details about a second planned lawsuit by Fieger were not immediately available. The federal lawsuit filed Thursday chronicles several ignored warning signs, including threats posted on social media, and faults Wolf for downplaying dangers to students in the days leading up to the shooting.
