Ex-Arkansas officer in fatal shooting must pay $382,000
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Little Rock police officer has been ordered to pay more than $382,000 in attorney's fees and costs to the mother of a 15-year-old boy he fatally shot.
Attorney Austin Porter Jr. told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Friday that Josh Hastings is to pay Sylvia Perkins, who is the mother of Bobby Moore III. Hastings fatally shot Moore in 2012 while investigating car break-ins.
Hastings was found liable in April for the shooting and ordered to pay $415,000 to Perkins.
Hastings was fired for violating department rules during the shooting. He was charged with manslaughter, but two trials ended in hung juries and the charge was dropped.