U.S. government 60% responsible for Texas Church mass shooting, says district judge

District Judge Xavier Rodriguez held the U.S. government 60% responsible for harm caused to victims of the mass shooting at a Texas church where 26 people died in 2017.

He ruled that the government failed to exercise care in allowing the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, to obtain firearms he used in the Nov. 5, 2017, massacre at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. He also ordered public prosecutors and victims to file a proposed plan to bring individual damages cases to trial.

“The government failed to exercise reasonable care in its undertaking to submit criminal history to the FBI,” the judge wrote.