The parents of two victims of the Nov. 30, 2021, shooting at Oxford High
School in Michigan are demanding more transparency from the school
district after the board voted against moving forward with an independent
investigation into the tragedy last fall.

The Oxford Board of Education on Tuesday announced that the district has,
for the second time, declined an offer from Michigan Attorney General Dana
Nessel to conduct a third-party investigation into the school shooting
with the goal of determining how shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley, 15,
managed to kill four students and injure seven others last fall.

"To me, this is an admission of guilt," Buck Myre, father of deceased 16-
year-old Tate Myre, said during a Thursday press conference. "They know
that things didn't go right that day, and they don't want to stand up and
fix it. They're going to hide behind governmental immunity and they're
going to hide behind insurance and the lawyers. What's this teach the
kids? They're in high school. � This is horrible leadership."

"We just want accountability," he added later when asked why an
independent investigation is important to parents.

OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING VICTIM TATE MYRE'S FAMILY, OTHERS SUE
CRUMBLEYS, SCHOOL STAFF

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald revealed in December 2021 that
school officials met with Crumbley and his parents to discuss violent
drawings he created just hours before the deadly rampage. The 15-year-old
suspect was able to convince them during the meeting that the concerning
drawings were for a "video game." His parents "flatly refused" to take
their son home.

The shooting has also resulted in several lawsuits, including two that
seek $100 million in damages each, against the school district and school
employees on behalf of the family of two sisters who attend the school.

Myre and Meghan Gregory, the mother of 15-year-old Keegan Gregory, who
survived the shooting but witnessed and was traumatized by Crumbley's
rampage, are suing the shooting suspect's parents, James and Jennifer
Crumbley, as well as school staff for negligence.

JENNIFER CRUMBLEY, ETHAN CRUMBLEY'S MOTHER, SENT OMINOUS TEXTS ON DAY OF
SHOOTING: �HE CAN�T BE LEFT ALONE'

"They're the ones that know what happened that day. They're the ones that
know what the breakdown would have been, where the breakdown happened, and
that's what we're looking for," Gregory said Thursday. "I guess I'm more
confused as to why the excuses? Is it because you are hiding behind
something? Because that's what it feels like to all of us out here saying
let's find out what happened that day so we can fix it."

School board president Tom Donnelly did not immediately respond to an
inquiry from Fox News Digital.

Attorney Ven Johnson, president of Ven Johnson Law, called the board's
decision a "horrible and sad, tragic development in this ongoing tragedy
that has befallen" his clients and other Oxford High School families.

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"The victims have been victimized again," he said.

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MURDER: �NOT JUST AN IMPULSIVE ACT�

The school board released an update on Tuesday after their meeting saying
that while they are committed to an independent investigation and have
narrowed potential third-party investigators down to three entities, the
entire process may take between three and five years because the district
does not want to interfere with ongoing civil and criminal litigation

Parents said the school board did not reach out to families saying they
were not moving forward with an independent investigation.

OWNER OF DINER WHERE ETHAN CRUMBLEY WORKED RECALLS SHOOTING SUSPECT: 'NONE
OF US NOTICED ANYTHING WAS ODD'

Nessel said she is "deeply saddened" by the board's "repeated rejection"
of her offers for an independent investigation into the events leading up
to the Nov. 30, 2021, shooting.

"My goal is not to assign blame but to help identify ways to improve
school safety for Oxford and all schools in Michigan," she said in a
Wednesday statement. "The school board�s unwillingness to partner with my
department on this effort flies in the face of transparency. The rejection
sends a message that the board is more focused on limiting liability than
responding to the loud outcry from the Oxford community to deliver greater
peace of mind to the students, parents and educators that lived through
this traumatic event."

The attorney general added that her department "can only perform an
exhaustive and thorough review when we have the full cooperation of the
school board and district."

"Absent that partnership, I am restricted to the publicly available
information we have all read and reviewed. Despite this outcome, I will
return to Oxford in the coming weeks and continue my work to be a resource
to the community," she said. "This latest setback does not deter my
efforts to share best practices across our state in order to help all
schools improve the safety and security of their learning environments."

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