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Shooting Victim Korryn Gaines’ Family Wins $37M Civil Case Against Baltimore County

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Korryn Gans and son Kodi

*It won’t bring her back, but after three weeks of testimony and several hours of deliberation, an all-female jury that oversaw the wrongful death trial of police shooting victim Korryn Gaines, her family was awarded a settlement of $37 million on Friday (02-16-18).

As we reported, when the incident happened in 2016, Gaines was shot and killed after a six-hour standoff with officers. The Baltimore County police officers who had been locked out of her Randallstown (Baltimore area) apartment with an arrest warrant, finally busted in to find her armed with a shotgun.

The jury took less than three hours to reach its verdict against Ruby and the Baltimore County government. There were gasps in the courtroom when the jury forewoman read the decision, and Gaines family members were in tears following the announcement.

The incident elicited a passionate response from the public over several unsettling tactics used by Baltimore County police. For one, authorities had Gaines’ wi-fi cut off as she was live streaming the confrontation, and secondly, many took exception to the force used in disregard of the fact that her five-year-old son Kodi was present to witness the situation unravel.

Kodi, now 6-years-old, will receive $32 million of the total, as it was determined that County Cpl. Royce Ruby’s use of force, when he fired off the first shot, was not objectively reasonable. The ruling contradicts the findings of a county prosecution that previously established that the shooting was legally justified.

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Korryn Gaines with son Kodi and daughter Karsyn

In addition to the majority of the settlement that Kodi will inherit, Gaines’ daughter Karsyn will get $4.5 million, and her father, mother, and general estate will get $300K respectively.

Kenneth Ravenell, the attorney for Kodi’s father, Corey Cunningham, said they were “blessed” that the jury “quickly, swiftly returned a justified verdict on behalf of a child who was victimized by Officer Royce Ruby.”

“This is a great day. This is a great statement on behalf of many who have been victimized by police officers — too many — in our community,” Ravenell said.

Cunningham said the financial award will help Kodi, now 6, “get the help that he needs.”

“I’m very happy that the jury came back and saw and realized what was going on in that courtroom wasn’t right, and what happened on Aug. 1 wasn’t right,” he said.

Gaines’ mother, Rhanda Dormeus, spoke to reporters through tears outside the courthouse.

“This win is for all of my sisters in the movement who have lost their children to police violence,” she said. “Some of them have never received justice, either criminally or civil. I just want to tell them that this win is for them.”

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