Nigel Shelby’s Mom Hires Legal professionals After Teen’s Suicide
Camika Shelby, the mom of Nigel Shelby who handed away in April from an alleged suicide, has employed civil rights attorneys Benjamin Crump and Jasmine Rand, to research the circumstances surrounding the 14-year-old’s dying.
Nigel allegedly killed himself after being bullied for being homosexual and his Camika believes Huntsville Metropolis Colleges knew extra concerning the circumstances surrounding the reason for his dying then they’re letting on. She additionally says her son’s dying is not going to be forgotten.
“I had so many questions that I wanted to be answered,” Shelby advised WAAY31.
Shelby says that when her son died she tried to get entry to his mobile phone to seek out solutions. His faculty’s school advised her that they didn’t know his password however instructed she learn a letter in his backpack, which was a notice to her.
“The truth that they knew that letter was in his backpack, someone knew that he was planning to do that,” Shelby stated.
Benjamin Crump and Jasmine Rand are the identical attorneys who represented Trayvon Martin’s household. Crump says he hopes to provide Shelby the solutions she’s searching for.
“We wish to examine and be capable of inform Camika Shelby precisely what they advised her baby when he reported the bullying,” Crump stated.
Shelby even claims that faculty workers advised her that her son being homosexual was a alternative. “I actually really feel from the underside of my coronary heart, if somebody had stated one thing, this might have been prevented,” she stated.
Huntsville Metropolis Colleges spokesperson Keith Ward issued a press release after studying Camika Shelby employed a authorized group. Learn it in full under.
We perceive that Camika Shelby has retained two attorneys to assist her study extra concerning the occasions previous her son’s dying. Huntsville Metropolis Colleges will work with Ms. Shelby and her attorneys to reply questions they could have and to right any misunderstandings or misinformation, to the extent doable. The impact of Nigel Shelby’s passing remains to be being felt by the varsity and district-wide. The directors and counselors of Huntsville Excessive College had a detailed relationship with Nigel throughout his time on the faculty. They labored with Nigel to make sure that he felt at residence at Huntsville Excessive. They have been completely devastated by Nigel’s passing and tried to do every part of their energy to help Ms. Shelby throughout that tough time.
As defined on the time of Nigel’s passing, Huntsville Metropolis Colleges is dedicated to fostering a tradition that’s welcoming and inclusive and establishing a studying surroundings that treats all college students with equality and respect. We anticipate all college students to deal with one another courteously and dignity and to chorus from bullying and harassment. The district addresses bullying and harassment in each our coverage guide and code of scholar conduct (known as the Behavioral Studying Information), with intensive punishments and interventions for the offending scholar. In actual fact, the BLG treats bullying and harassment of one other scholar based mostly on an figuring out attribute of that scholar with heightened disciplinary penalties and interventions. This heightened therapy demonstrates Huntsville Metropolis Colleges’ dedication to eliminating this kind of bullying and harassment in its colleges.
Moreover, it has been and continues to be Huntsville Metropolis Colleges’ follow to companion with organizations who can present educators with instruments to handle bullying and harassment in colleges. For instance, Huntsville Metropolis Colleges has had an extended partnership with the Anti-Defamation League. The district has carried out the Anti-Defamation League’s program “No Place for Hate” in all of its colleges for years. Along with that partnership, Huntsville Metropolis Colleges has been working with GLSEN Higher Huntsville to include GLSEN’s instruments and sources into the district’s trainings for each directors and school.
