Family Receives $7.9 Million to Settle Murder-Suicide Wrongful Death Case

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office agreed last month to pay $7.5 million to the family of a man killed in a 2019 murder-suicide, one of the largest wrongful death settlements in Spokane County.

Makayla M. Moody alleged in federal court that her husband, Benjamin L. Grosser, was wrongfully killed as a result of a Spokane County deputy’s inactions on May 30, 2019, after a dispute with the couple’s neighbor at their home near Orchard Prairie where they operated a landscaping business.

Grosser, 29, was shot by his neighbor, David Cholewinski, 61, after a road-rage incident between the neighbor and Grosser’s employees at his landscaping business. Cholewinski pointed a handgun at the employees after he said they cut him off. The situation escalated when a sheriff’s deputy issued a citation for misdemeanor to Cholewinski without making an arrest.

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