A civil lawsuit filed against Oxford Community School District this week accuses administrators of putting students in danger by allegedly downplaying the actions of the accused gunman before a shooting that left four students dead and seven other people injured.
Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old suspect, posted “countdowns and threats of bodily harm,” the lawsuit alleged. The complaint claims the teen left “a severed bird head in a mason jar containing a yellow liquid” in a school bathroom.
The school then emailed students and parents that “there has been no threat to our building nor our students,” the lawsuit said.
The morning of the shooting, a teacher at the high school was alarmed when she saw a note on Crumbley’s desk that contained a drawing of a gun, a bullet and a person who appeared to be bleeding.
