Theater victims’ families nearing agreement with non-profits

AURORA, Colo. — The families of the Aurora theater victims hope to finalize a plan Wednesday night that will release money donated after the attack in July.

Victims and their family members held a news conference last week to complain that the money being given to the 7/20 Recovery Fund wasn’t going to victims and wasn’t being distributed quickly enough.

Watch the father of a slain 20-year-old give an emotional plea to donation fund managers.

Perhaps the biggest complaint the victims’ families voiced at that press conference was their lack of representation of the decision-making body responsible for the disbursement of donation funds. This pending agreement would change that.

If reached, the agreement with the non-profits Giving First and the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance would create a new committee made up of victims, their family members and community members which will free up the donation funds within 45 days.

About $5 million has been donated to the fund thus far.