Firearm taken from unlocked government vehicle; the family of Kate Steinle has a lawsuit pending against BLM. Now about HER:
The family has set up a GoFundMe page to help "the family continue to move forward and to support the causes close to Kate's heart," the page says. The causes listed on the page are the Challenged Athlete's Foundation and the Performing Animal Welfare Society.
A post on the GoFundMe page says: "Kate had a special soul, a kind and giving heart, the most contagious laugh I have ever heard and smile I have ever seen. Kate loved to laugh, travel, spend time with friends, and most of all loved her family."
The GoFundMe post added: "The day before Kate died she changed her Facebook cover photo with a saying that said 'Whatever's good for your soul ... do that.'Please always remember Kate and live your life by these words."
More about her:
The gun that authorities say killed Steinle was a government-issued weapon of a Bureau of Land Management officer. BLM officers are supposed to keep their unloaded firearms stored in a locked container, but the loaded .40-caliber handgun was reported stolen from a backpack visible inside a vehicle parked in San Francisco in June. The suit names the BLM as a defendant because of the alleged mishandling of the weapon.
“The Bureau of Land Management takes seriously the loss of any human life and we are continuing to fully cooperate with the ongoing investigations,” spokeswoman Martha Maciel said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
A spokeswoman for ICE said in an email to HuffPost that Sarah Saldaña, the ICE director, recently met with Steinle’s family “to express the agency’s profound sympathy for their loss,” but the department wouldn’t comment directly about the lawsuit’s allegations.
The sheriff’s office didn’t respond to HuffPost’s inquiries.