$4.2 Million Awarded To A Woman Shot At Wal-Mart Parking Lot

A State jury has awarded $4.2 million to a woman shot during a 2001 carjacking in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Plaintiff was approached by a gunman while she was exiting the local Wal-Mart at around 1:30 a.m. The gunman demanded the Plaintiff�s keys and stole Plaintiff�s vehicle shortly after shooting Plaintiff in the back. The gunman was caught within minutes and is not serving a 15-year sentence in state prison for the crime. According to the Plaintiff�s attorney, Wal-Mart provided inadequate security despite notice of over 398 visits by the police in the 20 months leading up to the shooting. �That should have been sufficient to put Wal-Mart on notice that crimes were being committed there.� Also, Wal-Mart had a policy to have security patrol but chose to not put them into place at that store.� Plaintiff�s attorney said Wal-Mart officials destroyed a surveillance videotape of the attack after the gunman was convicted but before the civil trial.