Uvalde school shooting survivors file $39b class action against law enforcement agencies

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Survivors of the fatal mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a $39 billion class action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement agencies in Texas. 9News

, have filed a $US27 billion class action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement agencies in Texas, according to court documents.the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the school district's police department, the Uvalde Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety and a number of persons who are members or former members of the agencies listed as defendants.

in adjoining classrooms just a few days before school was to let out for the summer. At least 17 others were wounded.A total of 376 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies responded to the massacre, the second deadliest shooting on a K-12 school in the United States. The lawsuit alleges the victims and survivors "sustained emotional and psychological damages as a result of Defendants' conduct and omissions" as a result of the shooting.

The lawsuit went on to reference the dysfunction and extended time period law enforcement took to respond to the shooting.

 

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