Victims are going after richer third parties for damages
Wearing combat fatigues and toting a .22-cal. rifle, Robert Wickes, 24, stormed into a junior high school social-studies class in Brentwood, N.Y., one day last month and took 22 pupils hostage. By the time the subsequent confrontation ended nine hours later, Wickes, a recently fired substitute monitor, had critically wounded one student, nicked the school principal in the face and shot himself dead. Within a week, the Brentwood school district was under siege once again, this time by lawyers announcing they would file suits on...
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