The school's staff consists of New York State certified special education teachers, content area teachers, teaching assistants and related service providers, including social workers, occupational therapists, school psychologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists, and a speech and language pathologist.

[3] Samel described the room as a small enclosed space where students were held for hours without access to restroom facilities for even minor transgressions.

[3] Megan Lane, a former student at Summit School, said she was sexually harassed by a gym teacher when she was 17 years old.

[4] He left six threatening voicemails for school security guard, Samuel Esposito for whom he held a long-standing hatred.

[3][4][5] Police obtained a search warrant for his home and found 19 firearms, a silencer, more than 200 ammunition magazines, bulletproof jackets, gas masks, knives, and collapsible "asp" batons in the stockpile.