Saying they can't keep quiet anymore, two former Oxford school board members plan to make public information that they allege shows the district is lying to victims' families and the public about its role in the mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others injured.
Specifically, the whistleblowers allege that Oxford school officials have led the community to believe that they did everything right but a bad thing still happened, when the facts show that the officials could have prevented the tragedy.
Those facts, the former board members maintain, have been withheld from the public, stressing they can't keep quiet anymore, and they want to share information that they previously were told they could not share.
The whistleblowers are former School Board President Tom Donnelly and board Treasurer Korey Bailey — both of whom recently resigned out of frustration over the district's handling of the shooting investigation.
"This has gone on long enough. I couldn’t take the Oxford stonewalling and lack of accountability any more," Bailey said in a news release Sunday. “They never though a school shooting would happen here and they failed to take action to prevent it.”
The former board members are coming forward nearly one year after the deadly Nov. 30 massacre at Oxford High School.
“I’m tired of being kicked in the teeth by people who just want to know the truth” Donnelly stated. “If Oxford Strong means anything, it has to...
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