Sutherland Springs Shooting Victims, U.S. Reach Tentative $144.5 Million Settlement

People wounded and families of those killed in a 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, are set to receive $144.5 million from the government under the terms of a settlement agreement announced Wednesday.

A federal judge in 2021 found that the U.S. Air Force was mostly responsible for the rampage, which killed 26 and injured 22. Officials there failed to add the shooter, a former airman who had been convicted of domestic assault, to a federal database that would have barred him from legally buying the gun he used in the attack.