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   HOUSTON, Texas – A jury reached a verdict Monday in the civil trial against   
   the parents of accused Santa Fe High School gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis.   
      
   The jury found Pagourtzis’ parents, Rose Maria Kosmetatos and Antonios   
   Pagourtzis, not liable but did find their son, Dimitrios Pagourtzis liable for   
   the shooting. The online ammo seller Luckygunner was also determined to share   
   some liability. The juryâ   
   €™s verdict assigned 80 percent responsibility to Dimitrios Pagourtzis and 20   
   percent to Luckygunner.   
      
   â€œI am overjoyed, I think the parents needed to be vindicated and it needed   
   to happen publicly,â€� said defense attorney Lori Laird. “Hopefully,   
   they’ll be able to start their next steps forward in their healing as   
   well.â€�   
      
   Seven of the 10 people killed during the 2018 mass shooting, and four of the   
   survivors, sued the Pagourtzis, their son, and Luckygunner. The families   
   argued they turned a blind eye to their son’s declining mental health and   
   were reckless in how they    
   stored guns in the home; citing it was the father’s 12-gauge shotgun and   
   mother’s .38-caliber handgun used in the mass shooting.   
      
   Laird said the family did keep their guns locked in a cabinet and safe, and   
   kept the keys hidden in a bedroom closet, but their son found the keys and   
   stole the guns. Laird also said their son kept his burgeoning mental health   
   problems hidden.   
      
   â€œ(I am) not trying to take anything away from the pain and the suffering and   
   the terrible things that happened to the plaintiffs, but my clients were also   
   made victims of this event as well,â€� said Laird.   
      
   The jury did award a total of $300 million in damages. However, victims’   
   families had already settled with Luckygunner before the civil trial, so the   
   online retailer will not be responsible for paying any new damages as a result   
   of this verdict.   
      
   The financial burden falls to Dimitrios Pagourtzis who remains hospitalized   
   and incompetent to stand trial in the civil case. An attorney for several of   
   the families of the victims, Clint McGuire, said he feels the verdict still   
   sends a message.   
      
   â€œWe respectfully disagree with the outcome. We believe that parents should   
   safely store their guns, we don’t believe that these parents did,â€� said   
   McGuire. “If we can show that if you don’t safely store your guns if you   
   don’t get your child’   
   s mental health when the red flags are there, then lawyers such as ourselves   
   are going to file a lawsuit, and we are going to put this in front of a   
   jury.â€�   
      
   The foreperson of the jury spoke with reporters following the verdict. He   
   declined to share his name, but said 10 out of the 12 jurors felt the   
   Pagourtzis did take reasonable steps to store their weapons and believed   
   testimony from psychiatrists that    
   those in mental decline can hide their symptoms.   
      
   https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/08/19/jury-deliber   
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