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Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:46 AM Sep 2019

Proposal for distributing millions in El Paso victims' funds released for public comments

The organization established to allocate millions of dollars in donations for victims and survivors of the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso has released a proposal on how to distribute the money.

Families of the 22 people who died in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting would get the largest allocation from the victims' fund, and people who were injured or had psychological trauma would get lesser amounts under draft protocols for allocating the money.

Twenty-five people were wounded and hospitalized after the shooting.

One Fund El Paso, which was established by two El Paso foundations to allocate donations still coming into the foundations' victims' funds, is now taking public comments on the protocols, which are scheduled to be revised and made final by Oct. 2, said Stephanie Karr, One Fund El Paso coordinator.

Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2019/09/05/el-paso-shooting-victims-fund-allocation-proposal-released-for-public-input/2221799001/

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