Shooter incident at elementary school in Uvalde, Texas - 19 children and 2 adults dead

The victims of the Uvalde school shooting have filed a $27bn lawsuit against 376 officials from state, police, school and law enforcement agencies.

The class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, said that officials waited over an hour to confront the shooterinside the fourth-grade classroom.

On 24 May, 21 people were killed after Salvador Ramos opened fire inside Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School, in one of the deadliest school shootings in the country.

The lawsuit seeks damages for those who have sustained “emotional or psychological damages as a result of the defendants’ conduct and omissionson that date.”

The suit has been filed by school staff and representatives of minors who were present on campus at the time of the shooting.

It claims that instead of following previous training to stop an active shooter, “the conduct of the three hundred and seventy-six (376) law enforcement officials who were on hand for the exhaustively torturous seventy-seven minutes of law enforcement indecision, dysfunction, and harm, fell exceedingly short of their duty bound standards”.

A separate $6bn lawsuit was also filed by a group of survivors against Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used by Ramos and the store where he bought the gun.

While the manufacturer has not responded to the suit, CEO Marty Daniels, at a congressional hearing earlier this year, called the shooting and others like it “deeply disturbing”……..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ng-victims-lawsuit-austin-texas-b2238131.html