A group of about 100 families will now have the chance to argue in court against releasing the writings of the assailant who killed six people at a Christian school.
A judge will rule on whether to allow parents of kids killed in the Covenant School shooting to voice their opposition in court to the release of the shooter's writings.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Dept.(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) A Tennessee judge has granted the parents of students killed and traumatized in a Nashville school mass shooting in March permission to intervene in a consolidated lawsuit seeking the public release of evidence seized in the on-going police investigation.
In a decision filed Wednesday night, Davidson County Chancery Court Judge I Ashea L. Myles ruled the parents have a legal standing in the case to "permissively intervene to preserve any rights they may have on behalf of the minor children who were victims of this incident but not at the age of majority to assert their own claims."
In a separate ruling released earlier Wednesday, Myles granted the Covenant Presbyterian Church and its school permission to intervene in the case because both have "a sufficient personal stake in the outcome of this litigation."
Attorney Eric Osborne who said he represents 100 families affected by the school shooting, including