Denver Public Schools has asked a federal court to dismiss two separate lawsuits filed by former deans at East High School who were shot and injured by a student two years ago.
The lawsuits filed by Eric Sinclair and Wayne Mason provide more details about the March 2023 shooting and about the shooter, a 17-year-old student who later took his own life. The lawsuits also slam the school district for what they claim was a preventable tragedy.
“The District’s and the Board’s systemic failures created a dangerous situation where it was not only foreseeable, but almost inevitable that at some point a student would shoot a member of East High School’s faculty or staff,” one lawsuit says…