An $18-million settlement has been reached between the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and a teen who was paralyzed during an encounter with a deputy.
According to court filings, 17-year-old Timmie Lee Knox Jr. was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by a deputy back in 2021.
He ran from the scene and climbed onto a roof to escape. A deputy followed Knox and wound up shooting him with a taser. That caused the teen to fall off of the roof, severing his spinal cord. Knox was left paralyzed from the neck down…