The owner of a defunct Buckhead nightclub has been ordered by an Atlanta judge to pay $66.5 million to the parents of an Albany State University student fatally shot inside the club on Mother’s Day last year.
Mariam “Mari” Creighton, a 21-year-old volleyball player, was celebrating with family at the Elleven45 Lounge on Peachtree Road when she was struck by a bullet intended for someone else, police said. The target, 20-year-old Nakyris Ridley, was also fatally shot. Police said four other patrons, all bystanders like Creighton, were shot but survived.
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