PONTIAC, Mich. – The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office has released internal documents that show the proffer agreements her office entered into with Oxford High School Dean of Students Nick Ejak and school counselor Shawn Hopkins.
The proffer agreements were signed on Jan. 5, 2022.
Proffer agreements are not immunity. The verbiage used shows the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office wanted their testimony but would offer no deals.
All that was put to paper was their cooperation, which would be considered if they were criminally charged, and it did not clear them from criminal prosecution.
Parents who have seen the agreements are disgusted by the timing. On Jan. 5, they were reeling from the tragedy and going to the school to get their children’s things.
They view these agreements as these two trying to save their skins.
Regarding criminally prosecuting anybody at the school, prosecutor Karen McDonald clarified that the evidence doesn’t support criminal charges.
The parents of those children murdered that day have a very different viewpoint, as you can imagine. They are going to court to try and get the school district’s governmental immunity from prosecution set aside.
While the prosecutor has not delineated what was said in jailhouse threats made by the father of the Oxford school shooter, James Crumbley, we know they were toward her and that they were made both in 2023 as well as in 2024.
McDonald says she will include them in Crumbley’s sentencing documentation because she believes they show his lack of remorse for what happened the day of the shooting.