(NewsNation) — The parents of four teens killed at Oxford High School by a classmate are speaking out nearly three years after the crime, vowing that their fight for justice is far from over.
Ethan Crumbley killed four students and injured several others using a gun gifted by his father. It’s the first case in which the parents of a suspect have been held legally accountable.
Steve St. Juliana spoke exclusively with NewsNation on Monday, urging Michigan citizens to “step forward” and take action to help launch a state investigation in the hopes of avoiding a repeat.
He and other parents demanded a state investigation into how and why the shooting occurred during a press conference Monday.
“One of the obvious ways is to vote for the elected officials that are saying they’re going to do something,” St. Juliana told NewsNation.
“Go to the school board meetings. We invited I believe 10 of the local school boards, and you noticed that there was none standing behind us. I think that says volumes, and that’s at a direct level that the community can get involved.
“Go to your school board meetings, ask the tough questions, demand the changes at that level,” he added.
School boards in the surrounding areas were not present, but the school board in Oxford did have representatives on the stage during the press conference held by parents of the victims.
The Oxford school board is fully supportive of the parents’ demands, and it is a different board from the one that was in place when the actual shooting happened in 2021.
“Three years of fighting with our government to investigate this tragedy in full so we can drive change,” Buck Myre, the father of Tate Myre, said Monday during the press conference.
“There has been a criminal investigation… nothing else,” he added. “Don’t we want to learn from this?”
