The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has reached a settlement with the families of eight victims of last year's workplace shooting. A ninth family did not settle, calling the offer insufficient.
: Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez III, 35; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63; Lars Kepler Lane, 63; and Alex Ward Fritch, 49.Advertisement
In addition to the settlement, the victims’ families had also previously received one year’s salary, workers’ compensation death benefits and retirement benefits.Anatomy of one of the wildest police pursuits Southern California has ever seen Gary Gwilliam, an attorney for the eight families who settled with the VTA, told the Mercury News that the cases against the transportation authority were “extremely tenuous and difficult.”
The family of Lars Kepler Lane did not settle with the VTA. An attorney for the family told the Mercury News that the offer was insufficient.
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