Superintendent Tim Throne wrote Wednesday evening to families after a flurry of other messages from Oxford High’s principal and the district’s school board president. Oxford administrators have said they will hire a third party to review school officials’ actions, and are calling for a review of the district’s “entire system” in the aftermath of the Nov. “I’ve asked Fieger to remove him from the lawsuit - and he won’t.” This man has been defamed,” Mullins said.
But Mullins says that that person hasn’t worked at the district in more than a year, and that Fieger is causing him “unnecessary trauma.” In court filings alleging destroyed evidence, Fieger’s law firm claims that this school employee deleted his LinkedIn account after the shooting. Specifically, Mullins claims that Fieger has named a defendant in the lawsuit who no longer works for the district, and, has refused to remove the person’s name from the case despite repeated requests. Mullins said that Fieger has made a mistake in his lawsuit, but rather than own up to it he is claiming that the district is hiding information. “People think that the school district is withholding information? Everything that we have has been given to the prosecutor … everything they want we’ve given to them.” “It’s a lie … it’s disgusting,” said Mullins, stressing the school district has fully cooperated with authorities from the get go. The allegations sent Oxford school attorney Timothy J. Just 5 minutes: A gunman turned a normal day at Oxford High into a nightmare More: Is the Oxford school shooting suspect competent? Experts weigh in “Plaintiffs cannot continue to be blindsided by the defendants by having to search for what evidence is being destroyed or altered.” “Not only did defendants fail to take necessary steps to preserve the evidence, but they willfully destructed the evidence by deleting the webpages and social media accounts,” attorney Nora Hanna wrote in Friday’s filing.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who claims the school district failed to protect students and put them in harm’s way by letting a “deranged” and “homicidal” student return to class after the school had warning signs that he was about to do something dangerous.Īmong the pieces of evidence that plaintiffs lawyers claim have gone missing or have been destroyed are the LinkedIn profile of one defendant, and a list of administrators from the school website. These claims are part of a lawsuit that seeks $100 million from the school district on behalf of an Oxford High School student who was shot in the neck and her younger sister who saw it happen. District Judge Terrence Berg late Friday ordered the Oxford school district to preserve all electronic evidence that relates to the lawsuit, as requested by the plaintiffs’ lawyers.īerg’s one-page order did not mention the plaintiffs’ allegations of destroyed evidence by school officials.
Lawyers suing the Oxford School District over last month’s deadly mass shooting claim that school officials have started destroying evidence in the case and have asked a judge to intervene.īut a lawyer for the school district scoffed at the allegation late Friday, calling it “disgusting” and “a lie,” and saying the district is cooperating fully with the investigation and has turned over everything it has to prosecutors.