Eight years after three Linden men were shot and killed by police during a protest against the former government’s proposed cut in electricity subsidies, the state has agreed to pay a total of $77 million to their families to settle wrongful death lawsuits that were filed.
Consent orders based on settlements brokered between the state and the estates of Allan Lewis, Ron Somerset and Shemroy Bouyea were issued earlier this month by Justice Franklin Holder.
According to the court orders seen by this newspaper, the estates of Bouyea and Lewis will receive $25 million each as compensation, while the estate of Somerset will receive $27 million.
