Missteps and failures by Oxford Community School’s former superintendent and two former members of his cabinet snowballed to allow the Oxford High School shooter to slip through the school’s threat assessment and suicide intervention systems and carry out Michigan’s worst school shooting, according to a 572-page report issued late Monday night.
Investigators with Guidepost Solutions, the organization that conducted the first independent investigation into the Nov. 30, 2021, attack at Oxford High School, laid blame for the shooting on Tim Throne, who was superintendent at the time of the attack and in the days leading up to it.
The report also put a major responsibility for the shooting on Jill Lemond and Denise Sweat, both former assistant superintendents for student services, titles that Guidepost said made them responsible for creating and carrying out an appropriate threat assessment and suicide intervention process.
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