Trial to Begin in Lawsuit Filed Against Accused Attacker’s Parents Over Texas School Shooting

Law enforcement officers respond to Santa Fe High School after an active shooter was reported on campus in Santa Fe, Texas on May 18, 2018. Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP

GALVESTON, Texas—A lawsuit accusing the parents of a former Texas high school student of negligence for not securing weapons he allegedly used in a 2018 shooting at his campus that killed 10 people was set to go before a jury on Wednesday.

Opening statements were expected in Galveston, Texas, in the civil trial over the lawsuit filed by family members of seven of those killed and four of the 13 people wounded in the attack at Santa Fe High School in May 2018.