The family of a teacher killed in a 2022 St. Louis school shooting three years ago has sued a major health care provider, saying it did not tell the district the attacker had expressed thoughts of violence against his former school.
Jean Kuczka’s husband and children filed the wrongful death case against BJC Health Systems, its main hospital and several health care providers on Friday. It was the third anniversary of the shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts and Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience. Both are magnet high schools in St. Louis Public Schools.
“This was a preventable tragedy,” said Todd Nissenholtz, a partner at Cofman Townsley and the family’s attorney. “Instead, what we have is Jean Kuczka, a hero who put herself between the gunman and her children to let them get out of the classroom, and a young student both killed on that day.”…