A Gadsden County jury has awarded $779 million to the survivors of a security guard shot and killed at a Havana internet gambling cafe in 2023.
Lewis Butler was shot eight times while protecting a cashier, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who said the verdict, believed to be the largest in county history, “means so much for different reasons.”
“Obviously, we want to compensate the family for this monumental loss that they suffered, this monumental wrong that this jury verdict helped to have a monumental right,” Crump told a reporter with the USA TODAY NETWORK –Florida. He filed a wrongful death case on behalf of Butler’s family…