{"id":122664,"date":"2022-02-08T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122664"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:19:29","slug":"air-force-ordered-to-pay-more-than-230m-in-texas-church-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122664","title":{"rendered":"Air Force ordered to pay more than $230M in Texas church shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ninja sends in word that the Air Force is paying out bigly for their screw up in regards to the 2017 church shooting in Texas. They are paying because the assailant was a person prohibited from possessing or buying firearms (from a domestic violence conviction) that happened while he was in the Air Force, but they never entered the information in the NICB system. If they had, he would not have been able to buy his weapon at a retail point of sale.<\/p>\n

Air Force Times reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims\u2019 families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled Monday.<\/p>\n

More than two dozen people were killed when Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire during a Sunday service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. Kelley, who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after being shot and chased by two men who heard the gunfire at the church, had served in the Air Force before the attack.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez had ruled in July that the Air Force was \u201c60 percent liable\u201d for the attack because it failed to submit Kelley\u2019s assault conviction during his time in the Air Force to a national database.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for survivors and relatives of those killed had asked for $418 million, while the Justice Department proposed $31.8 million.<\/p>\n

The approximately 80 claimants include relatives of those killed and 21 survivors and their families. Authorities put the official death toll at 26 because one of the 25 people killed was pregnant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ninja sends in word that the Air Force is paying out bigly for their screw up in regards to the 2017 church shooting in Texas. They are paying because the assailant was a person prohibited from possessing or buying firearms (from a domestic violence conviction) that happened while he was in the Air Force, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,187,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-air-force","category-government-incompetence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-vUs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}