It's been nearly two weeks since the violent stabbing and shooting incident outside of McKinley High School, and the first legal action on behalf of one of the victims has taken place.
The law office of attorney John Elmore said Aurielle Austin of Buffalo signed a Notice of Claim on behalf of her 14-year-old son, identified in the document as Sirgio Jeter. He is the McKinley student who was stabbed multiple times during the Feb. 9 incident.
Filing a Notice of Claim is the first step required to begin litigation against a government entity in New York State.
It charges Buffalo Public Schools and Superintendent Kriner Cash as negligent actors for failing to provide a safe and violence-free school environment, describes a culture of violence that was allowed to develop at McKinley High School and maintains that administrators did nothing after becoming aware of the escalating conflict.
Jeter remains in critical condition at Oishei Children's Hospital.
