Victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that left 21 people dead last spring filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit this week, per court documents.
Crosses set up on Nov. 8, 2022, to honor those who lost their lives during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Photo: Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Imagesthat left 21 people dead last spring filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit this week, per court documents.The suit, filed in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, accuses officials of failing to follow active shooter protocol by waiting more than an hour to confront the attacker.
The suit seeks damages for survivors who have sustained "emotional or psychological damages" and will now "be forced to endure the indelible and forever-lasting trauma that Defendants immeasurably caused and amplified ... in failing to undertake prescribed course of action."
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