Michigan School officials at Oxford High School were ordered to preserve social media sites and other evidence in the school shooting, which was allegedly destroyed.
“Not only did the defendants fail to take the necessary steps to preserve the evidence, but they deliberately destroyed the evidence by deleting the websites and social media accounts,” attorney Nora Hanna wrote in a lawsuit Friday, according to The Detroit News. “Complainants cannot continue to be blinded by the defendants by having to search for what evidence is being destroyed or altered.”
A congratulatory man kneels to pray at a memorial on the sign for Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., Wednesday, December 1, 2021. A 15-year-old second student opened fire on the school, killing several students and injuring several other people, including a teacher. (AP Photo / Paul Sancya)
(AP Photo / Paul Sancya)
Lawyers for surviving siblings school shooting on Nov. 30, a U.S. district court judge asked to order school officials to preserve such evidence and get social media companies to restore missing profiles and postings.
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U.S. District Judge Terrence Berg complied with the request and ordered Superintendent Timothy Throne and High School Principal Steven Wolf to keep information related to the case.
Hanna claims that a defendant’s LinkedIn profile was pulled down and a list of high school administrators was removed from Oxford’s website. Attorney Geoffrey Fieger also sent custody requests to companies and groups like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, according to The Detroit News.
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Ethan Crumbley, 15, allegedly shot and killed four students and injured seven others at Oxford High School.
(Oakland County Sheriff’s Office)
“It’s a lie … it’s disgusting,” Oxford School District Attorney Timothy J. Mullins replied. “People think the school district is withholding information? Everything we have has been given to the prosecutor … everything they want, we have given to them.”
Lawyers are also asking Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to save notices with the hashtags #OxfordStrong, #OxfordSchoolShooting and #OxfordShooting from November 30 and preserve any related notices sent from the school the day of the shooting.
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Hanna represents sisters Riley Franz, 17, an Oxford High School senior, and Bella Franz, 14, a freshman. The request came a day after attorney Geoffrey Fieger filed two lawsuits on behalf of the sisters’ parents, Jeffrey and Brandi Franz, against the school district and school staff.
The lawsuits claim $ 100 million in damages, claiming that defendants “created the danger and increased the risk of harm that their students would be exposed to” prior to the shooting. Riley was shot in the neck on the day of the shooting, and Bella “barely escaped the bullets fired at her,” according to the lawsuits.
OXFORD, MICHIGAN – DECEMBER 3: People attend a vigil in the center to honor the killed and wounded during the recent shooting at Oxford High School on December 3, 2021 in Oxford, Michigan. Four students were killed and seven others injured on Nov. 30 when student Ethan Crumbley allegedly opened fire with a gun at the school. Crumbley has been charged with the shooting. Today, his parents were also charged. (Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images)
(Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images)
“The individually named defendants are each responsible through their actions to make the students’ victims less safe,” the lawsuit states. “The Oxford High School students, and in particular the plaintiffs, would have been safer if the individual defendants had not taken the actions they did.”
Mullins also shot back at the trials, calling them “bombastic stunts disguised as legal cases” that “do a disservice to the people of Oxford and the people of Michigan.”
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“These latest false allegations are baseless, ruthless and totally irresponsible,” Mullins added in a statement to The Detroit News. “Mr Fieger has named the wrong person in his sloppy legal archives and refuses to withdraw his statements and dismiss him immediately, which is unscrupulous.”
James and Jennifer Crumbley (Oakland County Sheriff’s Office)
(Oakland County Sheriff’s Office)
“School staff continue to receive death threats, and Mr Fieger is throwing petrol on the fire with his shameless, emotionless and irresponsible tactics and angry rhetoric.”
That shoots left four students died and seven others injured. Police quickly apprehended the suspect, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, the day of the shooting.
Crumbley was charged with one count of terrorism causing death, four cases of first-degree murder, seven cases of assault with intent to murder and 12 cases of possession of a firearm in connection with a crime.
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His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were also charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter each. They were apprehended last Saturday morning after an extensive manhunt when they did not show up for their trial on Friday.
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