On Tuesday Nov. 29, survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which include parents, teachers, school staff and students, filed a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against the city, the school district, multiple law enforcement agencies, and individual officers who were there during the tragic day, according to court documents. 

This is the first class-action lawsuit of its kind that has been filed in connection with the Uvalde shooting. However, other parents of some of the children who lost their lives that day have filed their own lawsuits against the school district, in addition to the manufacturer of one of the guns used, Daniel Defense, and others.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin, has the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District's police department, the Uvalde Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the aforementioned individual officers from all listed agencies as defendants.

One of the many individual defendants listed is Texas Department of Public Safety Chief Steve McCraw, who has been called to resign by many of the parents of Robb Elementary School student victims. However, he has maintained his stance that the agency as an institution did not fail in regards to their response. 

Parents, teachers, school staff and students who were there on May 24, are listed as plaintiffs. They demand redress for "the indelible and forever-lasting trauma" caused by the failures of the law enforcement agencies to respond to the shooting, which in the time since, has been heavily scrutinized and described as slow. 

Following the tragedy, several local lawmakers launched their own investigation, held a hearing and released a report that described what went wrong. Investigators released reports of huge security failures, slow police response, as well as the missed warning signs of the shooter.

Officers who were present that day did not follow their active shooter training, which is opposite of what law enforcement said happened in the hours after the shooting when questioned. The active shooter training instructs officers to neutralize the shooter quickly, which did not happen. In fact, there was some waiting around before response occurred, by which point, it was too late. 

A reported 376 officers from the several agencies listed as defendants arrived on scene after the shooter, Salvador Ramos, had already entered the school. Officers stood in the hallway as video showed and did nothing for over an hour, even while students in the fourth grade classrooms that Ramos attacked, called 911 numerous times. 

"Law enforcement took 77 minutes to accomplish what they were duty bound to expeditiously perform," the complaint says.

Court documents also list other failures by officers in addition to the weak security at Robb Elementary that led to the killings of 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers, with dozens of more injured as a result. 

A handful of the officers present, including Texas DPS Sgt. Juan Maldonado and Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo, were ultimately fired in the months following the tragedy. This past October, the Uvalde school district also said that their police department would be suspended.