Sutherland Springs mass shooting victims say they've reached $144.5M settlement with DOJ
The victims of the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which 26 were killed, have reached a "tentative agreement" with the Justice Department to settle a case against the federal government for $144.5 million.
The agreement has to be approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland's office, the victims' lawyers said in a statement. If given approval, which is expected, it would end a yearslong legal battle over a federal judge's ruling that the U.S. #government bears some #responsibility for the attack because it #failed to #submit the shooter's #criminal #history into a #database that would have #prevented him from #purchasing #firearms.
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