Jury awards $415,000 in suit against Josh Hastings over suspect's fatal shooting
Jury finds ex-Arkansas officer liable in fatal shooting A federal jury on Thursday found a former Arkansas police officer liable in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy and awarded $415,000 in damages to the teenager's mother. The jury ruled in favor of the mother, Sylvia Perkins, in her wrongful death lawsuit against former Little Rock officer Josh Hastings. The verdict in the lawsuit comes after two manslaughter trials against Hastings, 31, ended in hung juries and prosecutors declined to try him a third time. Perkins is the mother of Bobby Moore III, who Hastings shot and killed in 2012 when he fired into a car carrying burglary suspects outside a Little Rock apartment complex. Hastings testified that the car was driving toward him and he yelled for the driver to stop before he opened fire. "As the vehicle gets five feet away, I thought they were going to run over me," Hastings testified. "I fired my weapon at the driver to eliminate the threat