FBI to pay millions to families who shot at a Parkland school | Gun Violence Issues
Lawyers for the families said they had cooperated with the FBI for failing to follow instructions on the gun.
Families of many students injured or killed in a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida have reached an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), their lawyers have said.
Lawyers, representing 16 of the 17 students and colleagues killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as several of the injured, said Monday they had agreed that the agency had failed to investigate the instructions it had received months before February. 14, 2018 murder.
On the same day Nikolas Cruz, who was expelled from high school a year earlier, entered the 12th house with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and opened fire indiscriminately. In about six minutes he killed 17 people and injured 17 others, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
U.S. journalists say the FBI will provide about $ 130m, although its details were confidential.
“It was an opportunity to represent the families of Parkland who, in their unparalleled grief, have committed themselves to making the world a safer place,” the victim’s attorney general, Kristina Infante, said in a statement. “While no decision can restore what Parkland’s families have lost, this settlement is an important part of justice.”
About six weeks before the shooting, an FBI agency received a phone call stating that former Stoneman Douglas student Nikolas Cruz had bought a gun and was preparing to “enter school and start shooting”.
“I know they exploded,” the singer told the FBI.
But the information was never forwarded to the FBI office in South Florida and Cruz never lost contact.
Meanwhile, five months before the shooting, the owner of a YouTube video also commented on a comment left by one of his videos where a user named “nikolas cruz” also said he would be a “professional school shooter”.
A few days after the shooting, the FBI admitted that it had not tracked any of the items.
Cruz had been expelled from school a year before the attack and had a history of mental and emotional problems.
Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow died in the shooting, praised the FBI for acknowledging his inaction, saying the shooting was the result of major organizational failures, a Broward County school district and sheriff’s office, school. security personnel and psychiatrists who assisted Cruz.
“The FBI has changed the way this is done,” Pollack said.
Cruz, 23, he pleaded guilty last month on 17 first-person murders. He will receive a death sentence or life imprisonment after a trial is set to begin in January.
