DOJ to pay $127.5 million to families in Parkland shooting settlement over FBI mistakes

2022-03-16
Source: Just the News
by: Madeleine Hubbard

Broward County Sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson outside as gunman murders students inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by Broward County Sheriff's Office is licensed under Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday it is paying $127.5 million to settle 40 civil cases over the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting after the FBI mishandled tips on the shooter.

Survivors of the shooting and the families of the victims have been involved in litigation for more than three years. The settlement was first reported in November, but the DOJ did not publicize the settlement until now.
The DOJ denied any wrongdoing in its press release.

"This settlement resolves all of the cases for $127.5 million. The settlement does not amount to an admission of fault by the United States," the department stated.

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Nikolas Cruz pled guilty last October to shooting and killing 17 students and staff members and wounding 17 others at the school on Valentines Day in 2018.

Source: Just the News