October 30, 2025
Ten years after Eric Moore Sr. died in police custody, a federal jury awarded his household over $40 million.
A household that spent the previous decade in search of justice for Eric Moore Sr., who died in police custody in 2015, has been awarded greater than $40 million.
A federal jury has awarded $42.75 million to Moore’s household following his loss of life whereas in custody at Richwood Correctional Heart, a Monroe, Louisiana, facility operated by LaSalle Corrections, WFAA studies. The jury discovered negligence by the corporate and its guards brought on Moore’s loss of life, awarding $1.5 million for ache and struggling, $6 million to every of his three grownup youngsters for wrongful loss of life, and $23.25 million in punitive damages.
“They only handled my father like he wasn’t a human being,” stated his son, Erie Moore Jr. “He suffered all the time he was there.”
Moore Sr. was a 57-year-old retired mill employee with no legal historical past when he was arrested in Monroe for a misdemeanor disturbing the peace whereas experiencing a psychological well being disaster. Jurors considered jail surveillance footage exhibiting guards repeatedly pepper-spraying him, hanging him within the head, forcing him to the bottom, and dropping him onto the ground.
“Inside 36 hours of arriving on the LaSalle facility, Mr. Moore was being carried out, blood was filling his cranium,” stated Max Schoening, a California trial lawyer who tried the case. “He had suffered a traumatic mind damage within the jail, and he would by no means get up once more.”
Moore’s youngsters spent the previous decade in a protracted authorized battle. The case had been stalled by a collection of decrease court docket rulings favoring LaSalle and the town of Monroe. Initially represented by Shreveport legal professional Nelson Cameron, the household later acquired help from Public Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group that took on the case after studying about Moore’s loss of life. In 2022, a federal appeals court docket revived the lawsuit, paving the way in which for the current trial that resulted within the $42.75 million award.
“For the previous 10 years, my sisters and I’ve been tormented understanding he’s not resting simple,” Erie Moore Jr. stated. “This trial has shined gentle the place there was darkness. It has introduced our household reality, justice, and peace.”
A federal jury held three guards answerable for negligence, battery, and extreme pressure, and in addition discovered LaSalle Administration Co., which operates Richwood Correctional Heart, accountable for Moore’s loss of life because of at the least one guard’s negligence. Nevertheless, no legal costs have been filed in reference to Moore’s loss of life.
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