LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A federal appeals court has ruled a Little Rock woman whose 15-year-old son was fatally shot by a police officer cannot try to hold the city or a retired police chief accountable.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the court in St. Louis upheld a decision Thursday that dismissed Little Rock and Stuart Thomas from Sylvia Perkins’ wrongful death lawsuit.
Thomas was police chief in 2012 when Officer Joshua Hastings killed Perkins’
son, Bobby Moore.
Hastings was fired and charged in Moore’s death, but was never convicted. The
jury ordered Hastings to pay Perkins $415,000 in damages, plus lawyers’ costs,
saying he violated Moore’s civil rights when he shot into the teen’s car.
Perkins’ attorney Mike Laux says the mother hasn’t received any money. Hastings
filed for bankruptcy last March.
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