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Former Mississippi officer ordered to pay over $2M to children of woman he murdered, records show
WATCH: Former Mississippi officer ordered to pay over $2M to kids of lady he murdered, data present
OXFORD, Miss. — A former Mississippi police officer who pleaded responsible to capital homicide should pay the 4 kids of the girl he shot and killed greater than $2 million, based on courtroom data.
Matthew Kinne was in uniform when he shot Dominique Clayton throughout what was billed as a welfare examine. He pleaded responsible to capital homicide and is serving life in jail with out the potential for parole.
Kinne was sentenced to life in jail with out parole for killing Clayton after breaking into her dwelling and taking pictures her at the back of the pinnacle in Might 2019 inside her dwelling on Suncrest Drive.
Clayton’s members of the family stated the 2 have been having an affair.
Kinne had labored on the Oxford police for 4 years and was fired shortly after the homicide.
Clayton’s household filed a wrongful loss of life lawsuit in August 2021.
READ MORE: Household of lady murdered by former officer sues Oxford Police Division
The youngsters’s aunt says they’re now 11 to 17 years previous. She contends that they need to get a quarter-million {dollars} every for ache and struggling and a complete of greater than $300,000 to cowl remedy,” the Related Press reported on Might 23.
A listening to that was scheduled for Thursday in federal courtroom to resolve what Kinne should pay was canceled Thursday morning. The Day by day Journal reviews that Senior Decide Glen H. Davidson ordered cost from Matthew Kinne after he failed to answer the lawsuit.
Information present, “The Courtroom finds that the Defendant Kinne is chargeable for compensatory damages within the quantity of $1,200,000. In arriving at this determine, the Courtroom awards $300,000 to every of the surviving kids of the Decedent, for a complete of $1,200,000.”
The decide dominated that punitive damages have been additionally warranted within the case due to the “intentional, wanton, willful, and reckless nature of Defendent Kinne’s actions in opposition to the Decedent.”
The decide awarded punitive damages within the quantity of $1,000,000, for a complete of $2,200,000.
READ MORE: Former Oxford officer sentenced to life in Clayton homicide case
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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