The trials are in different states (Texas v. Michigan) and have far different stakes (civil v. criminal), but they feature the same essential question: Could the shooter’s parents have prevented this massacre?
They ignored signs of their teenage son’s failing mental health. They missed his issues in school. And they allowed him access to the family’s guns, which he used to carry out a devastating school shooting. Those are some of the key allegations made in a Galveston, Texas, courtroom in a civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who as a 17-year-old student in 2018 fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School.
“What we can agree upon is that if parents know a child has a mental illness, whether it’s depression, anxiety, whatever kind of mental illness it is, it’s that parent’s job to get that child help,” he said. McGuire pointed to emails in which the parents discussed their son’s struggling health, as well as their own testimony. They said “that they knew something was wrong, but they did not know how to fix it,” McGuire said. “They did nothing.
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