Victims of the Uvalde school shooting have filed a $27 Billion class action lawsuit against police, along with city and school officials, for the massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead

Victims of the Uvalde school shooting have filed a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against police, along with city and school officials, for the massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The suit, filed in federal court in Austin Tuesday, claims that officials, including law enforcement, failed to protect children and teachers from an armed attacker inside a fourth-grade classroom during the May 24 shooting spree. The lawsuit is seeking $27 billion for survivors, who continue to suffer “emotional or psychological damages as a result of the defendants’ conduct and omissions on that date.”

Among the plaintiffs are school staff and the representatives of children who were present at Robb Elementary School when 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos burst onto the school grounds, killing 19 children and two teachers.