US Pays $127 Million to Settle Allegations of FBI Negligence in Florida Mass Shooting

FBI Director Christopher Wray arrives to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 2, 2021. Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters

The U.S. government has agreed to pay $127 million to settle approximately dozens of cases brought by parents of children who were killed in a mass shooting in Florida in 2018.

The finalized settlement “resolves all the cases,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.