REVEALED: Two Michigan school officials were placed on leave after they did nothing following meeting with school shooter Ethan Crumbley about his disturbing drawings on the day he killed four students
- The employees - Nicholas Ejak, former dean of students and Shawn Hopkins, a counselor - have both left the school but will continue to work in the district
- An attorney leading the lawsuit, Ven Johnson, called these actions an attempt to cover up responsibility for not stopping the shooting
- Ejak and Hopkins both met with then-15-year-old Ethan Crumbley and his parents to discuss the disturbing drawings he'd made just a few hours prior
- Crumbley allegedly convinced them the drawings were for a video game and his parents refused to take him home, local prosecutors said
- The lawsuit against the district also claims Ejak briefly had Crumbley's backpack containing a handgun and 48 rounds of ammunition in his possession
The dean of students and a counselor at Oxford High School in Michigan who were named in a lawsuit against the school district were put on administrative leave after the tragic shooting that left four students dead in November.
The employees - Dean of Students Nicholas Ejak and Counselor Shawn Hopkins - have both since left the school but will continue to work in the Oxford School District.
An attorney leading the lawsuit, Ven Johnson, called these actions an attempt to cover up its responsibility in not stopping the shooting.
'Oxford Community Schools has yet again covered up its role in the Oxford High School mass shooting tragedy. Today, we have found out for the first time, that two of its high school employees, Nicholas Ejak and Shawn Hopkins, both of whom are named in our civil lawsuit, were immediately placed on paid 'administrative leave' for more than one month following the shooting,' Johnson said in a statement.
The suspensions are 'yet another example of the overwhelming evidence which proves the school district has no interest whatsoever in determining the mistakes it made that left four students dead, seven injured and hundreds traumatized,' he added.
Counselor Shawn Hopkins (pictured left) and the Oxford High School Dean of Students Nicholas Ejak (pictured right) were allegedly suspended in the wake of the brutal shooting at the school in November, but remain employed by the district, according to a lawsuit
Ejak and Hopkins both met with then-15-year-old Ethan Crumbley and his parents to discuss the disturbing drawings he'd made just a few hours before he went on a killing spree, according to the county prosecutor
Ejak and Hopkins both met with then-15-year-old Ethan Crumbley and his parents to discuss the disturbing drawings he'd made just a few hours before he went on a killing spree, according to the county prosecutor.