A class action lawsuit will seek upwards of $27 billion for the victims and families affected by the Uvalde shooting at Robb Elementary School.
The class bringing the suit will consist of “all victims, including the deceased, the injured children, the parents, and all children, teachers, and individuals on the school premises at the time, along with all the family members who witnessed this tragedy.”
The law group representing the families, Bonner & Bonner, is based in California. The father and son legal team claim to be “committed to combating injustice, providing exceptional representation, and securing rightful compensation for their clients.”
The firm explained that it will sue “the police who failed to enter the school for 77 minutes, the State of Texas for putting out false information to the victim’s families, and the FBI, who approved the sale of these weapons to this 18-year-old” in addition to gun manufacturers, gun sellers, and social media.
Charles Bonner, the firm’s founder, told KSAT, “People have a right to life under the 14th Amendment, and what we’ve seen here is that the law enforcement agencies have shown a deliberate conscious disregard of life.”
“What we intend to do,” Bonner explained, “[is] to help serve this community, and that is to file a $27 billion civil rights lawsuit under our United States Constitution, one-of-a-kind in the whole world.”
The claim filed by Bonner referenced a Texas House committee report which suggested “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” led to the tragedy, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Bonner & Bonner has also contemplated “a Class Action lawsuit against all responsible parties” for the victims and families affected by the Tops Friendly Market shooting that occurred in Buffalo, New York. The targeted parties would include “gun manufacturers, gun sellers, social media, the parents with whom he lived and stored his guns, and others.”
The class action by Bonner & Bonner will not be the only lawsuit concerning the Uvalde shooting, however, as other groups are in the process of similar suits. Attorneys from places such as San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Los Angeles are suing on behalf of various families and individuals. Still, the Bonner & Bonner class action is the largest lawsuit seen thus far.
