The City of St. Paul has agreed to pay $9.5 million to the family of a boy who was shot and injured by a rec center employee.
Exavir Binford Jr. is currently serving over 10 years (125 months) in prison for shooting then-16-year-old JuVaughn Turner in the head on Jan. 18, 2023. Binford, an employee at the Jimmy Lee Recreation Center at the time, was also ordered to pay $34,000 in restitution to Turner’s mother for medical costs.
Turner’s family sued the city, claiming that Binford wasn’t adequately punished for punching a visitor at a different community center and then threatening to shoot another visitor at the rec center…