Category: Sutherland Springs

DOJ Agrees to $145 Million Settlement Over Background Check Lapse in Texas Church Shooting Case

April 5, 2023
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a tentative agreement with dozens of plaintiffs who allege the department failed to keep its criminal background check system up to date, and that these failures contributed to a deadly shooting at a church in Southerland Springs, Texas, in 2017. In November 2017, a gunman entered the…

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US Government 60 Percent Responsible for 2017 Mass Shooting in Texas: Judge

July 7, 2021
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The U.S. government bears most of the responsibility for a mass shooting that left 25 dead in Texas in 2017, a judge said in a ruling signed Wednesday. A group of parents of children killed in the massacre at a church in Sutherland Springs sued the government a year after the shooting, alleging the failures…

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