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The United States Air Force must pay more than 230 million dollars in damages to the survivors and families of victims in a church in Texas in 2017, failing to report the conviction of the attacker who could have prevented the man from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, sentenced the federal judge in San Antonio.
Nearly thirty people were killed, including 8 minors, when Devin Patrick Kelley shot during a Sunday service at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Spring.
The man, who apparently killed himself after two men heard gunshots in the church they shot at him and chased him, he had been a member of the Air Force before the Attack.
Likewise, the federal district judge, Xavier Rodríguez, ruled in July that the Air Force was “responsible for a 31%” of the attack because he failed to submit Kelley’s assault conviction during his time in the Force to a national database.
A report The Air Force court martial says Kelley pleaded guilty to many counts of assault, including beating her wife, choking her with his hands and kicking her.
What’s more, he was convicted of hitting his stepson on the head and body “with a force capable of causing death or serious injury”.
According to pentagon rules, sis assumed that the information on the Convictions of military personnel for crimes such as assault should be submitted to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Investigative Services Division for inclusion in the National Clearinghouse database. Criminal.
For unspecified reasons, the Air Force did not provide the required information on Kelley.
The lawyers of the survivors and relatives of those killed had requested 418 millions of dollars, while the Department of Justice proposed 31.8 million.
The approximately 230 claimants include relatives of those murdered and 21 survivors and their families. Authorities set the official death toll at 26 because one of the 25 dead people was pregnant.
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