A Newton County jury has awarded more than $1.3 million to the children of a young woman murdered in a public housing apartment complex after finding that the Covington Housing Authority was largely responsible for allowing a convicted murderer to live there. The jury held her murderer 10 percent liable after the judge ordered that he be listed on the verdict form in accordance with Georgia’s apportionment statute.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Andrew T. Rogers of Deitch & Rogers, who unsuccessfully fought the apportionment order, said he was gratified that the jury understood that the authority’s director and staff should have recognized Willie Gunn’s “violent propensities” and determined that he should never have been allowed to live in an apartment there.
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