DOJ reaches tentative $144.5 million settlement with victims of Sutherland Springs church mass shooting

The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced it had reached an “agreement in principle” to settle lawsuits from the November 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church for $144.5 million, according to a news release. A federal court in 2021 ruled the US government was liable for damages caused by the shooting, in which 26 people were killed and 22 others wounded. The Air Force, a judge concluded, failed to exercise reasonable care when it didn’t submit the shooter’s criminal history to the FBI’s background check system,...