The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history left 58 dead and hundreds injured, but thousands of the other traumatized victims won’t be able to get settlements from the record-breaking $22 million fund set up to help them, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Those suffering psychological trauma from the Oct. 1 shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival with 22,000 attendees won’t be eligible for claims under the final terms of the fund, announced Friday. Instead, claims eligible for payouts fall into three categories, which have not been given final dollar amounts yet: deaths, physical injuries resulting in overnight hospitalization, and physical injuries treated by outpatient facilities or healthcare providers.
Local officials set up a GoFundMe page Oct. 2, and more than 88,000 individual donors gave to make it the site’s highest-earning campaign ever, at more than $11.5 million and still growing. And there was more than $10 million in other private, corporate, and non-profit donations to the fund.
[For more on this story by Josh Marcus, go to https://news.vice.com/en_us/ar...e-dollar22m-gofundme]
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