Oxford families push for subpoenas 3 years after Ethan Crumbley killed 4 in school shooting

Although the gunman who killed their children and his parents who gave him the weapon are down bars, families of the Oxford High School shooting victims accidental their combat for justness is acold from over. 

Victims' parents gathered for the archetypal clip without their attorneys alongside members of the Oxford Board of Education, the town's main of police, the region prosecutors bureau and different supportive parties to request a afloat probe into the events that led up to Ethan Crumbley's Nov. 30, 2021 onslaught connected the Michigan schoolhouse that killed 4 students and injured 7 others, including a teacher.

"This is not astir identifying radical to prosecute – that's what the lawyer wide continues to get incorrect connected this," 1 of the gathered radical said astatine the Monday property conference. "While that is simply a portion of the story, the bigger portion is to thrust the accidental to alteration the future... this is an accidental to leverage the onslaught arsenic a acquisition learned."

The parents accidental that they are inactive successful the acheronian astir what could person been done otherwise starring up to that time and privation accountability from the school district, officials and unit who they accidental person escaped liability implicit their roles successful the tragedy. 

MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER ETHAN CRUMBLEY SENTENCED TO LIFE AFTER ADDRESSING COURT: 'I AM A REALLY BAD PERSON'

Ethan Crumbley answers "yes" to charges against him during his pre-trial proceeding astatine Oakland County Courthouse connected Oct. 24, 2022 successful Pontiac, Michigan. (Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News via AP, File)

Although the Oxford Community Schools Board published a 590-page autarkic probe carried retired by Guidepost Solutions, the parents said lone a 3rd of progressive parties cooperated. 

"In definite captious areas, individuals astatine each level of the district... failed to supply a harmless and unafraid environment," the probe concluded.

School counsellor Sean Hopkins and erstwhile Dean of Students Nicholas Ejak –  "the 2 radical with the astir cognition astir the determination to let the shooter to spell backmost to class" – refused to cooperate with the investigation, Guidepost wrote.

Only 51 of 143 existent oregon erstwhile Oxford Community Schools employees responded to the institution for interviews. Guidepost asked the territory to necessitate employees to participate, but they did not bash so.

"How bash we cognize what we don't know," said Steve St. Juliana, whose 14-year-old girl Hana St. Juliana died successful the shooting, which besides claimed the lives of Tate Myre, 16; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and Justin Shilling, 17.

JENNIFER AND JAMES CRUMBLEY SENTENCED IN SON'S MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTING

James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, look successful tribunal for a preliminary hearing. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

"What has the authorities done with [the Guidepost investigation]? They haven't adjacent acknowledged it," different genitor said. "There's a batch already retired determination that needs to beryllium turned into something, beryllium turned into a countermeasure and turned into change."

The radical wants the authorities of Michigan to transportation retired and money this investigation, and usage subpoena powerfulness to unit those who refused to speech earlier to bash truthful now. 

The bulk of the accusation the victims' parents person learned astir the shooting came from the trials of James and Jennifer Crumbley, who became the archetypal parents successful the U.S. to beryllium held criminally liable for a wide schoolhouse shooting carried retired by their child. 

Both Crumbleys were convicted of involuntary manslaughter, concluding that they were liable for the deaths of the Michigan students because, among different things, they did not decently store the weapon that their lad snuck retired of their location that day.

Prosecutors argued astatine some trials that the parents ignored indications that their lad was depressed and crying retired for help.

They said that the Crumbleys could person prevented their son's actions if they had disclosed that their lad had entree to a weapon during a gathering astatine schoolhouse connected the greeting of the shooting and brought their lad location aft learning during that gathering of a troubled drafting helium made connected a mathematics worksheet. The drafting depicted a bleeding body, a weapon and the words, "The thoughts won't stop. Help me."

MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER'S MOM WANTS HOUSE ARREST, BACKTRACKS ON REGRETS AND KILLER'S PARENTS FACE SENTENCINGS

Four students were killed and 7 others were injured connected Nov. 30, 2021, erstwhile pupil Ethan Crumbley opened occurrence astatine Oxford High School. (Scott Olson)

Ethan Crumbley is serving a beingness condemnation without the anticipation of parole aft pleading blameworthy to each charges. He and his parents are appealing their sentences. 

However, the victims' parents connected Monday insisted that the schoolhouse was the 4th culprit successful the massacre. 

No authorities entity has weighed successful connected the Guidepost probe oregon affirmed immoderate of its findings; Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel offered 3 times to reappraisal the schoolhouse shooting, the Detroit Free Press reported, but the Oxford School Board rejected her offers. 

The Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, which had representatives astatine Monday's meeting, gave aggregate schoolhouse officials confidential immunity agreements, including Hopkins and Ejak, according to the Free Press. 

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Nicole Beausoleil, the parent of Madisyn Baldwin, 1 of 4 Oxford High School students who was killed by Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, reacts to the jury's verdict of blameworthy connected each 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter successful the proceedings of Ethan Crumbley's father, James Crumbley connected March 14, 2024 astatine Oakland County Circuit Court successful Pontiac, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

"The authorities [has] basal immunity unless they’re the ones pulling the trigger themselves, they’re covered, they person a union," 1 talker said connected Monday. "Colorado changed their instrumentality after Columbine that successful cases astir schoolhouse violence, that that immunity was not automatic. If you were grossly negligent, you could beryllium held accountable."

"It’s rather clear, this is an epidemic that’s growing. It’s not a substance of if, it’s a substance of erstwhile this volition hap again," different genitor said. "Even if it can’t beryllium prevented, if we tin travel up with countermeasures… it’s each worthy it."

"We’re infatuated astatine looking astatine the instrumentality alternatively of reasoning ‘Why are radical feeling this way? Why are radical feeling this way, wherever they privation to bash evil things?’ We’re lone looking astatine the weapon stuff."