A student injured in a 2018 Florida school shooting has filed a lawsuit against the school district and is seeking more than $30,000 in damages.

The lawsuit was filed earlier this year against Marion County Public Schools on behalf of a former student, Evan Ekenroth. Ekenroth, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, accuses the district of failing to provide adequate security for the students and staff at Forest High School in Ocala.

On April 20, 2018, Ekenroth was shot in the ankle by a former student, then 19-year-old Sky Bouche. According to officials, Bouche came onto the campus with a sawed-off shotgun which he concealed in a guitar case. After entering the school building, Bouche entered a bathroom where he armed himself before shooting through a classroom door, injuring Ekenroth.

Bouche was quickly detained by officials, and bodycam footage shows Bouche wearing tactical-style gear. According to officials, Bouche had selected the school as his target after his online research detailed that school shootings were likely to get more media coverage than church shootings would. Bouche also told officials that he did not intend on killing anyone on the day of the shooting. Bouche has since been sentenced to a 30-year prison term after pleading no contest to his charges last April.

The Forest High School shooting occurred just weeks after the Parkland, Florida, shooting that rocked the nation and has since been a catalyst for tighter gun control measures throughout the nation. In that incident, 17 individuals at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school lost their lives to the student gunman, Nikolas Cruz.

In his lawsuit, Ekenroth accuses the school district of failing to implement proper security measures. Because of these nonexistent security measures, individuals who were not students or did not have the right to be on school property were able to access the building and the school's parking lot.

Less than a week after the shooting occurred, the school board approved a measure that provided $224,000 to hire 34 new resource officers that would serve as security for the elementary and charter schools in the district for the remainder of the school year. Additional measures were also approved in an effort to provide greater security for the over 50 schools in the district.

According to the lawsuit, Ekenroth details suffering injuries that resulted in pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, permanent and significant scarring, mental anguish, loss of the capacity to enjoy life, hospital expenses, surgery, medical care and treatment, loss of earnings, and loss of the ability to earn money. Ekenroth is seeking a jury trial.