Families of Sandy Hook victims reach $73 million settlement with gunmaker Remington

Published February 16, 2022 6:50 AM

NEWTOWN, Conn. (KYMA, KECY) - Nine families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting reached a $73 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against Remington and its insurers.

The firearms company made the bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used in the 2012 shooting that killed 20 kids and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut.

A 2005 federal law protects many gun makers from wrongful death lawsuits brought by family members, but attorneys for the Sandy Hook families pushed a different approach by trying to hold the company partly responsible because of its marketing strategy.

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April was born and raised in San Diego where she loved the beach town and her two dogs, Lexi and Malibu. She decided to trade the beach for the snow and advanced her education at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

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