Poll of the Day > Man accidentally SHOT by POLICE and left PARALYZED gets only 750,000!!!

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Bryant Heyward who was shot in the NECK by ACCIDENT by POLICE in 2015 gets only 750,000 in a lawsuit against the South Carolina police..and he was left PARALYZED FOR LIFE!!

It happened when an officer mistook him for an intruder and SHOT him in the enck after they got a report of a home invasion just west of Charleston

He asked for 25 million in his original lawsuit but they ended up only giving him 750k in the end

His attorney, Justin Bamberg said "This case was very complicated. Bryant was completely innocent guy and everything that could have went wrong did go wrong. With no footage of the shooting, certail factual disputes created a proverbial he-said,he said situation. However, nothing changes the fact that Bryant was an innocent homeowner shot in a tragic turn of events and his life will never be the same. His life changed forever but he's one of the fortunate ones who survived one of these bad encounters with law enforcement"

Police said he had a GUN in his hand when police arrived and barged into his home as the burglers already ran off and didn't know Heyward was armed.

Deputy Keity Tyner and his parnter arrived and saw a door fling open and a black male appeared and pointed a handgun at him and although there is no footage of the actualshooting, there is audio of Tyner who can be heard saying "show me your hands"

Barely a second later, Tyner shoots twice rendering heyward a quadriplegic for life

Heyward then screams and says "Wrong guy, sir. This is my house"

A victim can be heard calling 911 telling dispatcher how 2 men with guns were trying to break into his house and banging on the windows and pleaded for police to come

He filed a lawsuit after the shooting left him paralyzed from the neck down and need of medical care for the rest of his life and he is unable to feed or bathe himself and developed bed stores

His lawyer says it hurts him that a young man in his late 20s to be in this situation for life as this settlement wasn't released until NOW as they feared he will be targeted again after finding out how much money he got in the lawsuit

Police said Tyner acted "appropriately" and declined to press charges as they said the settlement was "more than enough"

Do you think 750,000 was more than enough for him?.

Heyward - Paralyzed









Tyner - Shot Heyward


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Really wonder who decided that amount and how they reached it. A payout at all suggests some wrongdoing, but the amount doesn't seem like it'd even cover his medical needs.
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This is bad for him, but being shot in the neck hes lucky he didnt become a quadriplegic and lose use of his arms, too.
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Normally I'd think that is a lot of money... I question if that amount is enough to cover his healthcare costs up to this point and for the rest of his life.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Normally I'd think that is a lot of money... I question if that amount is enough to cover his healthcare costs up to this point and for the rest of his life.

Didn't the federal court rule that the max you could get for a wrongful death was 1 or 2 million(I could be wrong here as I remember seeing it ages ago)? If that is the case, I can see how it would be that low. They can't give more than what a wrongful death would warrant, that would cause all kinds of issues.

For the medical stuff I am sure they are filling that with the PD's insurance. A few years ago my uncle worked for a company that builds super fancy houses and after a hurricane came through he was inspecting the frame of a current project and the wall fell on him and VERY much fucked up his lower back. The company he worked for paid out 500k and the insurance handles ALL of his medical stuff regarding his back even to this day. The surgeries he had to have, the medicine, therapy, everything.
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hypnox posted...

Didn't the federal court rule that the max you could get for a wrongful death was 1 or 2 million(I could be wrong here as I remember seeing it ages ago)?

I've never heard that nor can I find any citations for it. And, on a fundamental level, I can't imagine them doing that because there's no real cause.
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