The report by the company Guidepost Solutions says the drawings, conduct, and statements made by Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley should have triggered the school’s threat assessment policies.
That would have let the school principal examine Crumbley’s backpack that contained the gun he used to kill four classmates.
Instead, the report finds former school superintendent Tim Throne and two former assistant administrators failed to take the actions that would have elevated the situation to the principal’s attention.
The report also notes that no cabinet-level school administrator would say it was their responsibility to oversee the policies, and that several officials, including the two who met with Crumbley and his parents the day of the shooting, refused to speak to investigators.
The investigative team that helped compile the report will be in Oxford later this week to take questions from the community about what they found.
