(AP) – A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri
woman who used it to fatally shoot her father is settling in a wrongful death
case.
A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Lexington.
Wellington resident Janet Delana says she asked Odessa Gun & Pawn in June 2012
not to sell a firearm to her schizophrenic daughter, Colby Sue Weathers.
Weathers bought a gun from the store two days later. Within hours, Weathers
fatally shot her father and attempted suicide.
Lawyers for the pawn shop unsuccessfully argued to the Missouri Supreme Court
that a federal law blocks such lawsuits.
Delana’s lawyer from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence says the
settlement is set to be the largest against gun stores since the 2005 federal
law.
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