The victims are pursuing at least $1 million in damages.
A Texas jury is set to decide whether the parents of a 2018 Texas school shooter should be held financially liable for damages.
Jurors will resume deliberations on Monday in a victim’s lawsuit that seeks to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable
Authorities say Pagourtzis fatally shot eight students and two teachers in the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018. He was 17 years old at the time.
The victims are pursuing at least $1 million in damages.
The victims’ attorneys say the parents failed to provide necessary support for their son’s mental health and didn’t do enough to prevent him from accessing their guns.
«It was their son, under their roof, with their guns who went and committed this mass shooting», Clint McGuire, representing some of the victims, told jurors during closing statements in the Galveston courtroom.
