With criminal charges still pending, the wrongful death lawsuit holds the 61-year-old Hilton Head woman civilly responsible for the death of a pedestrian in late February.
The 27-year-old suspect from Beaufort turned himself in Monday afternoon following the shooting death of “Little Miss Ariana Skylar Fair,” his 3-year-old daughter.
The Hilton Head Plantation residents hired the 20-year-old from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to watch their two dogs and three cats during a nine-day trip out of the country.
The defendant, 21-year-old Bluffton man Ty Leic Chaneyfield, was the second of four suspects to stand trial for the March 2021 murder of Dwon “D.J.” Fields.