The parents of Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner, who were among the children fatally shot Dec. 14, 2012, have served town officials with the 66-page wrongful death lawsuit. The families are seeking unspecified damages in the lawsuit, which is expected to be filed in Superior Court in Danbury in the coming weeks. Attorney Donald Papcsy, who lives in Sandy Hook and has an office in Norwalk, confirmed in a brief interview that he is representing the Lewis and Pozner families.
Among the allegations is that Sandy Hook Elementary School had security policies and procedures in place, but that the school faculty and staff didn’t follow them on the day of the killings. Classroom doors could only be locked from the outside with keys, leaving teachers vulnerable to intruders, and the front of the school didn’t have security glass that would have stopped the assailant Adam Lanza from shooting his way in and bypassing the locked front doors, according to the lawsuit.
