Charter won't pay out $7b after cable installer murdered woman. Just $1b instead
A Dallas judge has reduced the amount Charter Communications must pay the family of a subscriber murdered by one of its Spectrum cable technicians.
Despite the reduction, the court still considers the American broadband giant's negligence was a factor in the slaying. Last year, Spectrum technician Roy Holden Jr admitted he murdered 83-year-old Betty Thomas, a Charter customer, in 2019 in her own home using a Charter-issued knife and gloves. The day before the killing, he had showed up to carry out a repair job, as requested, and returned the next day unannounced using a van he was able to take from a Charter site even though he was not scheduled to work.
It was said he killed the grandmother after she caught him going through her purse looking for bank cards to steal. Holden was sentenced to life behind bars.Charter owed Thomas's family $7.3 billion in damages and other costs as a result of its negligence in allowing Holden to use a company van that fateful day and for not noticing various red flags, such as him lying about his employment history and being seemingly unstable at work.adjusts that amount down to around $1.
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