A lawyer representing the parents of two first-graders killed in the tragic 2012 Newtown school massacre claims that emergency folders kept in two of the classrooms where victims were killed did not have keys that could have been used to lock the rooms’ doors.
The parents of Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner, two of the 20 first-graders killed along with six educators at Sandy Hook School, are suing the Connecticut town of having inadequate security measures as part of a wrongful death lawsuit.
School district officials have stated in court documents that every classroom at the school had an emergency folder with a key to lock the door against an intruder.
The parents’ attorney, Donald Papcsy, said that he examined the emergency folders in state police custody on Friday as part of the lawsuit after receiving a judge’s permission in mid-August to inspect the folders, the News Times reported.
A lawyer representing the parents of Jesse Lewis (left) and Noah Pozner (right), two first-graders killed in the tragic 2012 Newtown school massacre, claims that emergency folders kept in two of the classrooms where victims were killed did not have keys that could have been used to lock the rooms’ doors
The parents of Lewis (left) and Pozner (right), two of the 20 first-graders killed along with six educators at Sandy Hook School, are suing the Connecticut town of having inadequate security measures as part of a wrongful death lawsuit
‘This has been a mission to find out the truth, because that is what the victims of this tragedy deserve,’ Papcsy told the newspaper on Tuesday.
‘We deserve to have a safe environment where our kids can go to school.’
He questions Newtown officials’ assertions that the folders had keys and that all teachers had keys,when the folders he inspected did not.
‘If you have a lock-down procedure and you are not provided the key, how are you supposed to lock down?’ Papcsy told the News Times.
‘This is going to be a big part of our case moving forward.’
School district officials have stated in court documents that every classroom at the school had an emergency folder with a key to lock the door against an intruder. Pictured above is the scene from 2012
The parents’ attorney, Donald Papcsy, said that he examined the emergency folders in state police custody on Friday as part of the lawsuit after receiving a judge’s permission in mid-August to inspect the folders. He said there were no keys. Pictured above is the scene
Back in July, the town had asked a state Superior Court judge to toss the lawsuit out of court arguing that the shooter, Adam Lanza, was responsible for the worst crime in the state’s history.
The families part of the lawsuit are preparing a response.
At this moment, this case is scheduled for trial in March.
The town’s lawyers would not comment on pending litigation.
The case involving the Lewis and Pozner families is separate from another lawsuit brought by 10 families against the maker of the rifle the 20-year-old used in the horrific attack.
That case was tossed out of court back in 2016, but is being appealed in state Supreme Court.