Georgia Jury Awards Nearly $70 Million in a Kroger Parking Lot Robbery and Shooting Case

On Thursday, a DeKalb County jury delivered a post-apportioned award of more than $69.6 million to a young Navy veteran shot multiple times during a robbery and carjacking at a Moreland Avenue Kroger store, leading to multiple surgeries and leaving him paraplegic.

Lead plaintiff’s attorney Peter Law said the evidence was overwhelming that Kroger knew the store was located in an unsafe, high-crime area, yet failed to place any security guards in the parking lot where Laquan Taylor was robbed and shot.

“There was testimony the guy who shot him had been hanging out around there before,” said Law, who tried the case with Law & Moran colleagues E. Michael Moran and Denise Hoying.

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