The U.S. government will pay a total of $88 million to families of those killed in the 2015 shooting at a Black church in South Carolina and to survivors, settling lawsuits over a botched FBI background check that allowed the gunman to buy his weapon
Settlement follows FBI’s admission that it botched a background check that should have kept shooter Dylann Roof from possessing a gun
People visited a memorial to the victims of the 2015 shooting at a Black church in Charleston, S.C., soon after the murders.WASHINGTON—, the Justice Department said Thursday. The families of the nine victims will receive between $6 million and $7.5 million each, and the five people wounded in the shooting will get $5 million each, the agency said.
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