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Families of Oxford shooting victims also want school officials held accountable

Handwritten messages are left at the memorial site outside Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich.
Jake May/The Flint Journal
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Associated Press
Handwritten messages are left at the memorial site outside Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich.

Michigan’s Attorney General’s office says they can’t launch an investigation without probable cause that school employees committed a crime. Oxford High twice turned down the Attorney General’s offer to investigate what led to the shooting

Attorneys for the families’ say in a legal brief that a federal court should deny an appeal by Oxford High school...that its workers are shielded from lawsuits because of “governmental immunity.”

Parent Buck Myre, whose son was killed, says school officials decided the teen did not pose a threat on the day of the shooting even though they knew he had access to a gun and had drawn a picture of a figure with bullet holes and the words “Blood everywhere.”

MYRE: “You got his murder plan right here in front of you. You can’t recognize that he’s at the top of the mountain in crisis? And they don’t have to answer to that.”

Prosecutors say there is not enough evidence to file criminal charges against any school employees.

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