Sutherland Springs shooting victims reach $144.5M settlement with DOJ and US

Victims and survivors of the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, have reached a "tentative agreement" with the Justice Department to settle a case against the federal government for $144.5 million. The agreement has to be approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland. The legal battle stems from a federal judge's ruling that the U.S. government bears some responsibility for the attack because it failed to submit the shooter's criminal history into a database that would have prevented him from purchasing firearms.