A health management company must pay millions of dollars to the family of four people killed in a Philadelphia shooting massacre after the company failed to submit paperwork that would have stopped the killer from buying the shotgun he used in the murders.
On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, the Philadelphia-based law firms Kline & Specter and Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky announced a $39.5 million verdict in the trial of Horizon Health Management LLC, a healthcare management company based in Texas.
In October 2019, Maurice Louis shot and killed his mother, 51-year-old Janet Woodson, his stepfather, 56-year-old Leslie Holmes, and his two half-brothers, 18-year-old Sy-eed Woodson and 7-year-old Leslie Holmes Jr. inside a West Philadelphia home.
Family members told NBC10 Louis had mental health issues, including depression and schizophrenia and had not been taking his medication at the time of the shooting…