A Texas County Reaches a $2.4 Million Settlement in Inmate’s 2021 Killing

The family of a 66-year-old man strangled by a Bexar County inmate who was sharing his holding cell has settled with the county for $2.4 million.

Dallas-based Law Offices of Dean Malone filed a 69-page lawsuit on behalf of Curtis Smith’s loved ones last summer, claiming his death at the hands of Mark Wong was a byproduct of “significant issues” at the jail in regards to “staffing, conditions and deaths.”

Wong was behind bars in August 2021 for a shooting and had been in custody for mere hours before authorities said he killed Smith, who himself was in jail as a result of not abiding by the terms he was given for a probated sentence on a domestic violence charge, according to court records.

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