This content was published on October 19, 2021 – 12:54
Miami (USA), Oct 19 (EFE) .- A group of families of victims of the massacre that occurred in 2018 at a high school in Parkland (Florida) reached an agreement with the authorities of the public schools of the area for which they will receive 25 million dollars, according to their lawyers.
The agreement covers 52 families and establishes that those who lost one of their members in the massacre will receive more than the relatives of the injured, lawyer David Brill told local media without giving more information on the distribution of the money.
This closes a negligence lawsuit filed against the Broward County School District (southeast Florida) by those families.
Seventeen people, 14 of them students and three workers from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Institute (MSD), died on February 14, 2018 as a result of the shots fired with a semiautomatic rifle in the center, an act of which the young Nikolas Cruz is accused. , today 23 years old
About twenty people were injured in the indiscriminate shooting.
Cruz, who was arrested the same day and confessed to having been the author of the shots, will appear tomorrow Wednesday before Judge Elizabeth Scherer to plead guilty to 17 murders and as many assassination attempts in order to avoid being sentenced to the death penalty. , which has provoked mixed reactions among the families of the victims and the injured.
The Prosecutor’s Office has already announced that it will continue to request capital punishment for this young man, who when the massacre occurred was no longer a student at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas center, from which he was expelled for misconduct, and that he had an arsenal in the house where he lived with a family foster care after the death of her adoptive mother.
“There is no amount of money capable of adequately compensating the numerous victims, but given the circumstances of this particular case and the fact that the school board is a sovereign immune entity, this is a fair and remarkable settlement,” Brill said.
There are still other lawsuits against school authorities to resolve.
The plaintiffs of the already resolved claim that the negligence of the authorities favored the perpetrator of the massacre to enter the center and open fire on the staff and students. EFE
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