Baltimore County To Pay Korryn Gaines’ Family $3M

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) —Baltimore County volition wage $3 cardinal to the household of a pistillate changeable and killed by a region constabulary serviceman successful 2016.

Korryn Gaines was changeable and killed by Cpl. Royce Ruby during a seven-hour standoff astatine her Randallstown apartment. Her lad Kodi, past 5, was injured.

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In a statement, region spokesperson Sean Naron called the colony “an important measurement towards closure and healing.”

“We besides admit Baltimore County’s ongoing enactment to beforehand equity and amended accountability,” Naron said. “While we person made tremendous progress, we besides admit that much enactment remains, which is wherefore our medication continues our efforts to rebuild trust, guarantee accountable policing, and physique a much conscionable aboriginal for each resident.”

The colony comes conscionable implicit 5 years to the time aft the shooting. It was reported this week that the 2 sides were adjacent an agreement.

The sides reached a colony aft an appellate justice overturned a Baltimore County court’s determination to invalidate a jury’s $38 cardinal payout for Gaines’ decease and her son’s injuries.

Prosecutors did not property charges against Ruby.

CBS Baltimore Staff