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Mother of slain Navy medic settles suits against gov't for $10.5M

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The mother of a Navy medic who was murdered in 2018 by her upstairs neighbor, a mentally ill Marine Corps deserter who should have been legally barred from buying the gun he used to kill her, has agreed to settle two lawsuits against the government for a total of $10.5 million. The lawsuits filed by Leslie Woods, the mother of 24-year-old Navy Corpsman Devon Rideout, alleged the Marine Corps and the California Department of Justice failed to properly submit information about the mental incompetency and background of Rideout’s killer, Eduardo Arriola, that would have landed him on an FBI database of prohibited gun owners and alerted the gun store it was barred from selling him a weapon.

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