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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

US government to pay $145m for failing to stop Texas church mass shooting

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The Department of Justice has reached a $144.5m settlement with the victims of a 2017 mass shooting.

A federal court ruled in 2021 that the US government was liable for damages related to a mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The shooting left 26 people dead and another 22 wounded.

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