SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS U.S. Federal District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez issued a verdict today against the United States Government in the amount of $230,000,000 for the Government’s role in causing the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on November 5, 2017. Twenty-six souls perished
SAN ANTONIO - Federal district court judge Xavier Rodriguez issued a verdict yesterday against the U.S. in the amount of $230,000,000 for the government’s role in causing the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on Nov. 5, 2017, a press release states.
âThe trial conclusively established that no other individual â not even Kelleyâs own parents or partners â knew as much as the United States about the violence that Devin Kelley had threatened to commit and was capable of committing,â Mr Rodriguez wrote.
Kelley had served nearly five years in the Air Force before being discharged in 2014 for bad conduct, after he was convicted of assaulting a former wife and stepson, cracking the childâs skull.
The Air Force has publicly acknowledged that the felony conviction for domestic violence, had it been put into the FBI database, could have prevented Kelley from buying guns from licensed firearms dealers, and also from possessing body armour.
Who’s to blame when a mass shooter shouldn’t have been able to buy his guns?
Law enforcement officials continue t investigate the scene of a 2017 shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas. Devin Kelley opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community on Nov. 5, killing more than two dozen and injuring others. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
SAN ANTONIO (CN) A federal judge in San Antonio must determine whether the victims of a mass shooting can hold the federal government responsible for the deaths and injuries caused by a gunman who shouldn’t have passed his federally mandated background check when he bought the murder weapons.