Academy Sports Pays $2.5M Settlement Over Illegal Gun Sales to Serial Killer

The sporting goods chain sold weapons to a straw buyer who gave them to Todd Kohlhepp, a felon serving life for killing seven people.

Academy Sports Outdoors is paying $2.5 million to the families of three victims of serial killer Todd Kohlhepp.
The settlement comes after a lawsuit accused the sporting goods chain of selling guns to a straw buyer who then gave them to Kohlhepp, a felon who couldn't legally purchase weapons.
Dustan Lawson, the straw buyer, signed paperwork stating the 12 guns and five silencers he bought between 2012 and 2016 were for himself, but then gave them to Kohlhepp.
Lawson has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison.
Kohlhepp is serving life without parole after pleading guilty in 2017 to killing seven people.