The families of murdered victims in the 2014 Jewish facility shootings have filed a lawsuit against the giant retail company, Walmart over the sale of guns used in the killings. The families believed that Walmart has a legal responsibility for selling firearms to a straw purchaser, which were later used to kill the innocent victims.
The family of William Corporon and his grandson, Reat Underwood, who were shot dead in Jewish facility shootings filed the case against Walmart in Johnson County District Court on Tuesday, according to Kansas City. Two similar suits were filed against Walmart employees in Republic, Missouri. According to the suits, the employees played a significant part in the killings by selling the shotguns recklessly to a straw purchaser.
"Gun dealers, including Walmart, owe a duty to use the highest standard of care to prevent the supply of firearms to those prohibited from possessing them," the plaintiffs said in their suits, Bearing Arms reports.
An earlier lawsuit was also filed by the family of Terri LaManno, the third victim in the Jewish facility shootings. The Hindu reported that LaManno's family sued Walmart, a gun store in Lebanon, Missouri called Friendly Firearms and the operators of the gun show in Springfield. F. Glenn Miller Jr., also known as Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., a southern Missouri neo-Nazi, and a white supremacist, attacked the victims on April 13, 2014 in an attempt to kill as many Jewish as possible. Since Cross was a convicted felon, he couldn't purchase guns so he instructed John Mark Reidle to buy the guns for him.
"Given the circumstances of the purchase, Wal-Mart should have taken affirmative steps to confirm that Miller was the actual purchaser and intended user of the Remington shotgun, and that the sale of the shotgun to Reidle, a straw buyer, was illegal," according to the suits.
Miller was convicted and sentenced to death over the Jewish facility shootings after a year. Reidle was charged last fall for claiming earlier that he purchased the firearms for himself. He was on a probation. Walmart reps expressed their condolences to the victim's families, but refused to comment on the lawsuit.
