Attorney Shawn Brown, Wednesday filed the first federal lawsuit on behalf of Uvalde school shooting survivors. The lawsuit shows that Robb Elementary was under-prepared even after receiving funds to improve school safety following the deadly shooting at Santa Fe High.
Brown is representing the families of three students who are survivors of the Robb Elementary School shooting. The families are suing the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, former school district police chief Pete Arredondo, the gun maker, and many other defendants.
The lawsuit points out that on the day of the shooting there were no officers specifically assigned to Robb Elementary. Officers on patrol would regularly visit the campus for no more than 45 minutes. The lawsuit also shows that Robb Elementary was under-prepared even after they received funds to improve school safety following the deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School in southeast Texas.
According to the lawsuit the school district was aware the shooter was on campus, but never activated a campus-wide safety alert, leaving the community and parents to learn any news by word of mouth. Meanwhile, the school district’s intercom system was available to use to alert school staff of the shooting but was never used by Principal Mandy Gutierrez, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also names Daniel Defense, which manufactured the weapon used in the attack. According to the lawsuit, the manufacturer of the weapon advertises a picture of a young child holding a rifle with a caption saying, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
The lawsuit claims that the gun manufacturer admitted that 90 percent of its purchasers aren’t military-trained and do not know how to responsibly and competently use their guns. The shooter used an AR-style gun in the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary.
