Families of Newtown massacre victims in $1.5 million settlement

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Mon Aug 3, 2015 4:55pm EDT

Families of Newtown massacre victims in $1.5 million settlement

MILFORD, CONN. | BY RICHARD WEIZEL

The families of 14 people killed in the 2012 massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, and two survivors reached a $1.5 million legal settlement on Monday against the gunman's mother's estate, according to court records.

The families of victims and two school employees who survived the attack will each receive a $93,750 share of an insurance policy on the Newtown, Connecticut, home where Nancy Lanza lived with her son, gunman Adam Lanza, according to filings at a Bethel, Connecticut, probate court.

The 20-year-old gunman began his rampage on Dec. 14, 2012, by shooting and killing his mother with a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle before driving to his former elementary school, where he gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators. He killed himself as police arrived.

A probate court clerk said Monday the settlement must still be approved by Probate Court Judge Joseph Egan.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/03/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-idUSKCN0Q826I20150803

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Just as a note, the home owners insurance of Eric Harris' and Dylan Klebold's parents

also paid out settlements to Columbine victims.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. I wonder when home owner policies will exclude guns - like dangerous dogs.

[TexasProgresive]

2. So that's the price of a dead child

$93,750.00

[GP6971]

3. Yup. That really sucks.

Probably that was all that was available though.

[Quayblue]

8. this is so fucking sad

And I believe this is part of the point.

[0rganism]

4. just glad this wasn't the parents having to pay $$$legal fee$$$ to gun manufacturers

apparently that happens sometimes too...

[hack89]

5. It only happens when you have bad lawyers

That give you really bad advice.

[Snobblevitch]

6. Yeah, that should not have happened. They never should have initiated the lawsuit.

Their lawyers knew they would lose and proceeded with the lawsuit anyway.

[cilla4progress]

9. And so it goes...

here's some cash. Sorry about your dead loved ones, but we can't - won't - do anything substantive about it.