Families of Parkland shooting victims reach $25 million settlement with school district

PARKLAND, Fla. – The families of victims killed during a schoolhouse shooting successful Parkland successful 2018 person reached a $25 cardinal colony with the schoolhouse district, media outlets reported Monday.

The families of the 17 killed, 17 injured and 18 traumatized during the massacre astatine the schoolhouse claimed the Broward County School District was negligent, WPLG reported. The largest payments volition spell to the 17 families who mislaid children and spouses successful the tragedy.

According to Attorney David Brill, who is representing the families of the 52 victims, the word negotiations with BCPS attorneys were ongoing.

Those families sued the schoolhouse district, claiming its negligence was a contributing origin starring to the troubled erstwhile pupil making his mode into the schoolhouse and opening fire.

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“There’s nary magnitude of wealth successful beingness that would compensate the galore victims adequately, but fixed the circumstances of this peculiar lawsuit and the information that the schoolhouse committee is simply a sovereign immune entity, this is simply a just and singular settlement,” said Brill.

The colony comes aft the schoolhouse territory had won a authorities Supreme Court ruling that could person capped full damages astatine $300,000 without support from the Legislature, CBS News reported.

The gunman who killed 14 students and 3 unit members astatine a Parkland, Florida, precocious schoolhouse will plead blameworthy to their murders, his attorneys said Friday, bringing immoderate closure to a South Florida assemblage much than 3 years aft an onslaught that sparked a nationwide question for weapon control.

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The blameworthy plea would acceptable up a punishment signifier wherever Nikolas Cruz, 23, would beryllium warring against the decease punishment and hoping for beingness without parole.

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