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U.S. NEWS Monday 9 March 2020
Suit: Website sold

ammo to underage

accused Texas shooter

SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A parents filed the amended
teenager accused of fa- petition. It's part of a lawsuit
tally shooting 10 people at filed against the suspect's
a Texas high school in 2018 parents, Rose Marie Kos-
was able to buy more than metatos and Antonios Pa-
100 rounds of ammunition gourtzis, alleging they knew
online because his age their son was exhibiting
was not verified, according extreme behavior and yet
to a lawsuit alleging that failed to prevent him from
the website involved broke accessing their firearms,
federal law. which authorities believe
Dimitrios Pagourtzis was were used in the shooting. In this Feb. 25, 2019, file photo Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the Santa Fe
a 17-year-old junior at Luckygunner.com, along High School teenage student accused of killing 10 people in a
the time of the May 2018 with its owners, Red Stag, May 2018 shooting at the high school, is escorted by Galveston
County Sheriff's Office deputies into the jury assembly room for a
shooting at Santa Fe High have been listed as ad- change of venue hearing at the Galveston County Courthouse
School. Federal law prohib- ditional defendants in the in Galveston, Texas.
its minors from purchasing amended lawsuit, which Associated Press
handgun ammunition, and claims Red Stag mailed
bars licensed gun compa- the ammunition via FedEx to protect the public," the faces life in prison. He is
nies from selling handgun without requiring an adult statement said. being held at a maximum-
or shotgun ammunition to sign for the package. Pagourtzis was charged security mental health
to minors or anyone they Neither Luckygunner.com with capital murder and facility.q
have reason to believe is nor Red Stag responded to
under the age of 21. requests from the Houston
According to an amend- Chronicle for comment.
ed lawsuit filed Thursday, Everytown Law, the legal
Pagourtzis initially ordered arm for Everytown for Gun
50 rounds of hollow-point Safety Support Fund, a na-
handgun ammunition and tionwide group, filed the
105 rounds of 12-gauge petition on behalf of Ab-
shotgun ammunition, the dul Aziz Sheikh and Farah
Houston Chronicle report- Naz, the parents of Sabika
ed. Two weeks later, he Sheikh, who arrived as an
purchased an additional exchange student last Au-
35 rounds of shotgun am- gust.
munition — both times from In a statement, Sheikh's
the website Luckygunner. parents said they are com-
com that did not require mitted to fighting for ac-
him to make an account, countability and for a safer
submit proof of age or set- future.
up a secure two-step au- "People need to know just
thorization, the filing said. how easy it was for the
Among those killed at the shooter to buy ammunition
school was a Pakistani ex- from a website that failed
change student whose to take even basic steps

Med student charged

with research smuggling

freed on bond

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — arrest, The Telegram & Ga-
A medical student from zette reported. His passport
China who U.S. authorities has also been confiscated.
say tried to smuggle can- Zheng was arrested in De-
cer research material out cember at Logan Interna-
of the country has been tional Airport in Boston with
freed on $100,000 bond 21 vials of cancer cells in
over the objections of fed- a suitcase he was taking
eral prosecutors. to China, authorities said.
Zaosong Zheng, 30, walked Zheng stole the materials
out of U.S. District Court in from his lab at Harvard-
Worcester, Massachusetts affiliated Beth Israel Dea-
on Friday but will remain un- coness Medical Center,
der GPS-monitored house authorities allege. q