Victims of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit against local and state police, the city and other school and law enforcement officials seeking $US27 billion ($A40 billion) for the delay in dealing with the gunman, the court said.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, alleges that officers failed to follow the shooting law when they waited more than an hour to confront the attacker in a fourth-grade classroom.
They are seeking class status and damages for survivors of the May 24 shooting who suffered “emotional or psychological harm as a result of the defendants’ conduct and inaction that day.” Among those who filed this lawsuit are the school staff and representatives of the children who were present at Robb Elementary School.
when a gunman stormed the school, 19 children and two teachers were killed in the deadliest school shooting in the United States in nearly a decade.
Instead of following the previous training p an active shooter “the behavior of the three hundred and seventy-six (376) law enforcement officers who were present in the seventy-seven minutes of law enforcement abuse, inaction, and injuries, they failed extremely in their work. standards”, says the lawsuit. Uvalde City officials said they had not been served with the documents as of Friday and had no comment on the pending proceedings.
The survivor group also sued Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used by the shooter, and the store where he bought the gun. That separate lawsuit seeks $6 billion in damages. Earlier this week, the mother of the child who was killed in the incident filed another lawsuit against the same people and organizations.
Two police officers were fired for their actions at the scene along with others. In October, Colonel Steve McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, acknowledged the mistakes of officials when he first confronted the families of the Uvalde victims for lying and changing the accounts of law enforcement and the lack of transparency of available information. But McCraw defended his organization, saying that “they did not fail.” Uvalde.
