Oxford Community Schools Independent Report On The Shooting At Oxford High School On November 30, 2021

Soon after the shooting, the Board of Education (the “Board”) of the Oxford Community Schools District (“OCS” or the “District”) learned that before the shooting, several OHS employees had identified concerning behavior, statements, and drawings by the Shooter at OHS the day of the shooting and the day before the shooting, and confronted him at the school, but ultimately allowed him to return to c. [...] The Board asked us to investigate, among other things, the District’s: i) interactions with the Shooter before the shooting; ii) actions before, during, and after the shooting; and iii) school safety and security policies, guidelines, practices, and measures in place both at the time we were hired and at the time of the shooting to minimize the risk of an active shooter at OHS in the future and th. [...] The Board also sought to provide the results of the investigation to the public and directed us to release the report publicly at the same time it was released to the Board. [...] By objectively investigating, assessing, and reporting on the District, we hope to empower the District, the victims’ families, the survivors and their families, and the entire Oxford community to i) heal and recover from the shooting, and ii) properly address and respond to the findings in this report. [...] Visits to OHS To supplement the knowledge of OHS and the shooting that we gained from the video footage of the shooting made available to us by OCPO, we made numerous visits to OHS and walked the facility to better understand the building and the shooting.