The family of a teen killed after being kicked out of the Florida State Fair says they're still fighting to increase safety measures nearly a decade later.
A Florida sheriff has been ordered by a jury to pay $15 million to the parents of a teenager who died while trying to cross a highway after being kicked out of the state fair by deputies. The 10-person jury reached its verdict Thursday evening in Tampa federal court in the case of Andrew Joseph III, a Black 14-year-old who was killed on Interstate 4 in 2014 after he was booted from the Florida State Fair following a disturbance involving several teenagers. The jury verdict culminates more than six years of court action.
A jury awarded the family of Andrew Joseph III $15 million in damages in the wrongful death lawsuit against the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department.