A Michigan judge has ruled that staff at Detroit area school cannot be sued for a mass shooting by a teen gunman 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 case, saying then-15-year-old shooter Ethan Crumbley was directly responsible for the Nov. 30, 2021 slaughtering and that the district and its employees were protected by governmental immunity.
“Because it is undisputed that the school district was a government agency engaged in the exercise or discharge of a government function at all times relevant … the school district is immune,” Brennan wrote in an opinion released Friday, according to the Authorities say Crumbley, now 16, used a semi-automatic handgun to open fire on other teenage students in the halls of Oxford High School.Ethan Crumbley killed four students and wounded seven others during a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.Brennan’s ruling doesn’t apply to Crumbley and his parents, who also are named as defendants in civil litigation.to a slew of murder and terrorism charges. Prosecutors have said they’ll seek a life sentence with no chance for parole.
Staff and officials at the Oxford Community Schools district are protected by Michigan government immunity laws in the 2021 mass shooting, a judge ruled.“On behalf of our Oxford clients, we are deeply saddened and disappointed by Judge Brennan’s dismissal today of all the Oxford Community Schools defendants,”“We maintain that [Michigan’s] governmental immunity laws are wrong and unconstitutional, and … should be changed immediately.
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