{"id":1248376,"date":"2023-08-02T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1248376"},"modified":"2023-08-04T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:32:52","slug":"man-awarded-4-3-million-in-lawsuit-against-walmart-after-tyler-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1248376","title":{"rendered":"Man awarded $4.3 million in lawsuit against Walmart after Tyler incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — A man was awarded $4.3 million by a jury in a lawsuit against Walmart after he was struck by a car in a 2020 incident. According to our news partner KETK, Arkansas native Scott Lacy was working as a subcontractor at a Walmart in Tyler in the lawn and garden center when in July 2020 multiple employees yelled for help in catching a shoplifter. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The employees and Mr. Lacy chased the shoplifter into the parking lot to retrieve the stolen merchandise, and then one employee instructed Mr. Lacy to release the suspect,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d his lawyers said in a release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mr. Lacy was walking back toward the Walmart store when the shoplifter struck him with his vehicle and catapulted him into a pole, shattering his ankle, which later required multiple surgeries to repair. Mr. Lacy also suffered a traumatic brain injury.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Walmart was ordered to pay $4.3 million to Lacy, and the accused shoplifter, identified by Lacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as Herbert Vanderkinter, 35 of Tyler, was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in addition to outstanding warrants. Vanderkinter pleaded guilty on Jan. 30 and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Lacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorneys said the jury was shown evidence during the trial, which began on July 24, of negligence on Walmart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part for inadequate training and understanding of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shoplifting policy.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the Walmart staff were properly trained, this whole incident would have been preventable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d personal injury attorney Jack Walker said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We hope this verdict sends a message to major companies that employee and guest safety should be a priority over profit and merchandise.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — A man was awarded $4.3 million by a jury in a lawsuit against Walmart after he was struck by a car in a 2020 incident. According to our news partner KETK, Arkansas native Scott Lacy was working as a subcontractor at a Walmart in Tyler in the lawn and garden center when in … Continue reading Man awarded $4.3 million in lawsuit against Walmart after Tyler incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1248386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/walmartbody-175x145.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man awarded $4.3 million in lawsuit against Walmart after Tyler incident","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 17:03:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/walmartbody-175x145.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man awarded $4.3 million in lawsuit against Walmart after Tyler incident","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248385,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248376\/revisions\/1248385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}