The City of Charlotte has agreed to a financial settlement with Randall Kerrick, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed black man, in 2013.
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Kerrick will receive almost $113,000 as part of a separation agreement. Ferrell’s family was awarded $2.25 million in a settlement in May. However, Kerrick’s defense attorneys argued that Ferrell, who had been drinking that night and had smoked marijuana at a co-worker’s home, was acting erratically and ran toward Kerrick when ordered to stop. The trial ended with a hung jury, and prosecutors elected not to retry the case. He said the agreement releases the city from any future legal claims.
Randall Kerrick and his wife Carrie talk with attorney George Laughrun while waiting for the courtroom to clear before leaving after Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin declared a mistrial in the voluntary manslaughter trial of officer Kerrick in Charlotte, N.C. Friday, August 21, 2015.
But the statement said Charlotte will not pay any legal expenses for Kerrick’s criminal defense.
The statement continued, “Wes Kerrick and his family look forward to new endeavors and are eager to place this tragic chapter of their lives behind them.”
Kerrick had been suspended from his job without pay since 2013, when he was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of the former Florida A&M football player.
“Our belief was confirmed by the majority of the jurors during his criminal trial”.
Someone shouts, “Get on the ground!” three times, and shots are heard off camera.
On Thursday, Georgia Ferrell, the dead man’s mother, said Kerrick should not have been compensated for killing her son.
usd50,630.80 in the lawyer (Robert D. McDonnell) that symbolized Kerrick within the civic fit delivered from the Jonathan Ferrell relations. “It’s as if the city is paying him for murdering my child”, Ferrell said. When the 8 to 4 hung jury verdict was reached, there were protests throughout the city.
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Ferrell said her family and their attorneys still hope that federal charges will be brought in the case. At that time, CMPD said the department “will also conduct an internal review of the shooting of Ferrell, as it does for all officer involved shootings”.
