Families of Uvalde school shooting victims sue Microsoft, Meta and gunmaker
Al Jazeera
The two lawsuits allege the technology firms entered into a ‘scheme’ with the gun manufacturer to promote its weapons.
Families of the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, have filed two wrongful death lawsuits: one against the firearm manufacturer and another against two technology companies, Meta and Microsoft, for their alleged role in marketing the weapon used.
Friday’s pair of lawsuits came on the second anniversary of the school shooting, one of the deadliest in United States history.
The gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, attacked Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, and killed 19 children and two teachers, leaving 17 more people injured.
The defendant in the first lawsuit, filed in the Uvalde County District Court, is Daniel Defense, a Georgia-based weapons manufacturer that produced the rifle the gunman used.
The second lawsuit, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, takes aim at Meta, owner of the social media platform Instagram, and the video game company Activision Blizzard, a subsidiary of Microsoft.
