Sixteen of 17 families of students killed settle lawsuit for $125 million-$130 million, sources say. The FBI didn't act on a tip saying Nikolas Cruz was going to shoot up a school.
More than a dozen families for the victims of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre have reached a settlement with the Justice Department in connection with a lawsuit they filed after the FBI failed to act on tips warning about the shooter, according to a court filing on Monday.
Family members of nearly all of the victims in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school massacre have settled a lawsuit against the federal government over the FBI’s failure to act on a tip that the gunman was planning a school shooting, The government will pay about $130 million to the families.
The families announced Monday they have settled their lawsuit against the federal government over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.
The U.S. Justice Department reached a tentative agreement Monday to settle lawsuits filed by families of the victims of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead in 2018, according to a federal court filing.
Family members of nearly all of the victims in the 2018 Florida high school massacre in Parkland have settled a lawsuit against the federal government over the FBI’s failure to act on a tip that the gunman was planning a school shooting.
Sixteen of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland had sued over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.
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