Court Awards Damages In Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Police Officer

The plaintiffs in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a shooting involving a law enforcement officer in Halifax County have been awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages for a total of $750,000, to be allocated among the members of the victim’s estate. In November of 2009, the administrator for the estate filed against Halifax County Sheriff’s Investigator Thomas Lewis a member of the drug task force who fired the shot that killed Randolph Neal Seamster Jr. in a Sheetz parking in July of 2008. The original suit requested $5.35 million alleging that Lewis acted negligently and committed assault and battery when he fatally shot Seamster.