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Survivors of the fatal mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a $US27 billion ($39 billion) class action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement agencies in Texas, according to court documents.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Austin, names the city, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the school district's police department, the Uvalde Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety and a number of persons who are members or former members of the agencies listed as defendants.
The plaintiffs include parents and teachers and school staff members who were at the school May 24 when 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in adjoining classrooms just a few days before school was to let out for the summer. At least 17 others were wounded.
A total of 376 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies responded to the massacre, the second deadliest shooting on a K-12 school in the United States.
Officers waited 77 minutes after the shooter entered two adjoining classrooms before storming in and killing the gunman, an 18-year-old Uvalde resident.
The lawsuit alleges the victims and survivors "sustained emotional and psychological damages as a result of Defendants' conduct and omissions" as a result of the shooting.
According to the lawsuit, despite active shooter training, law enforcement "fundamentally strayed from conducting themselves in conformity with what they knew to be the well-established protocols and standards for responding to an active shooter".
The lawsuit went on to reference the dysfunction and extended time period law enforcement took to respond to the shooting.
"Instead of swiftly implementing an organised and concerted response to an active school shooter who had breached the otherwise 'secured' school buildings at Robb Elementary school, the conduct of the three hundred and seventy-six (376) law enforcement officials who were on hand for the exhaustively torturous seventy-seven minutes of law enforcement indecision, dysfunction, and harm, fell exceedingly short of their duty bound standards," the suit claims.
"There are no words to adequately express our deepest condolences to all the families who lost a loved one on May 24," Anne Marie Espinoza, a spokesperson for the school district, said in a statement to CNN.
"Uvalde CISD cannot comment on or provide information about pending litigation.
"As a district, we focus on supporting our students and their families as we continue to navigate these unprecedented times."
CNN has reached out to the city of Uvalde and the state public safety department for comment.
The civil complaint is at least the third around the massacre that seeks damages from a number of parties.
One federal lawsuit filed earlier this week alleges nearly two dozen people and entities, including the gun manufacturer and store that provided the rifle used in the attack, were negligent and failed to protect a student who was killed.
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