In the letter, the families of those killed in the church shooting wrote that they are still awaiting justice, and an appeal would cause them to publicly...
Visitors file out after they are allowed into First Baptist Church to pay their respects a week after the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 12, 2017. The church was the site of a shooting that killed 26 and left 30 injured. Survivors from a 2017 shooting in Sutherland Springs submitted a letter Thursday asking the Department of Justice to end its appeal of their case in order to avoid delaying justice and “get to healing.
In a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland, survivors and families of those killed wrote an appeal would further delay justice and cause them to publicly relive the trauma they endured from the church shooting. A spokeswoman for an attorney representing the victims of the shooting said that the DOJ appeal could take up to two years.
“By filing your appeal, we feel betrayed by the country we love and that many of us have served,” the letter reads. “You put us through two separate trials that lasted several weeks. We had to relive the nightmare of the shooting publicly and talk about the most private parts of our lives while being cross-examined by cold government lawyers.”
On Nov. 5, 2017, Devin Kelley, a U.S. Air Force veteran — who had a history of domestic abuse — shot and killed 26 people at a
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