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Soldier’s Shootings

The Fifth Circuit upheld a ruling against the families of three victims fatally shot in 2015 by a soldier stationed at Fort Hood. The families claimed the government was liable for Army employees’ negligent performance under three regulations, which were triggered by a report about a domestic violence incident involving the shooter and his wife. The families cannot show that the harm to the shooter’s wife and neighbors was “foreseeable to the Army,” the court ruled.

/ April 7, 2021
FILE - In this April 2, 2014, file photo, members of the media wait outside of the Bernie Beck Gate, an entrance to the Fort Hood military base in Fort Hood, Texas. Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money in 10 bank accounts from a couple of U.S. Army veterans in Texas, who they say used personal information stolen from soldiers to defraud the military out of as much as $11 million. In an affidavit filed in court in June 2020 seeking to search the couple's home in Killeen, near Fort Hood, investigators described how they allegedly used a transportation reimbursement program to swindle the Army out of $2.3 million to $11.3 million. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld a ruling against the families of three victims fatally shot in 2015 by a soldier stationed at Fort Hood. The families claimed the government was liable for Army employees’ negligent performance under three regulations, which were triggered by a report about a domestic violence incident involving the shooter and his wife. The families cannot show that the harm to the shooter’s wife and neighbors was “foreseeable to the Army,” the court ruled.

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