BREAKING: Sutherland Springs mass shooting victims reach a tentative agreement with DOJ to settle their legal battle with the government for $144.5 million, according to an attorney.
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Twenty-six were killed and 22 were injured in the Nov. 5, 2017, massacre at the small, rural First Baptist Church.The Sutherland Springs families "have gone through so much pain and loss in the most horrific way," trial attorney Jamal Alsaffar said in a statement to ABC News. "But despite that, these families fought for justice, endured and won two trials against the Federal Government, and made this country safer as a result.
In this Nov. 6, 2017 file photo law enforcement officials continue their investigation at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs Texas.for the church shooting because it failed to alert the FBI that the shooter, Devin Kelley, was previously investigated and court martialed for assaulting his then-wife and her stepson on an Air Force base, which would have flagged him as barred from purchasing a weapon under the NICS background check system.
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