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"The fallout continues from the multi-million-dollar judgment handed down on Friday against the Albuquerque Police Department in a wrongful death civil suit.A jury awarded the family of Kenneth Ellis III $10.3 million after determining that an APD officer had shot and killed the Iraqi war veteran. The judgment is one of the largest in ever against the APD. Family members said Ellis' son will receive the money.\"I don't think any of us were looking at it as a city/community-changing event, and it turned out to be,\" said Annelle Wharton, Ellis' mother. \"I'm so proud of my son.\"City attorneys promise to fight back.\"We believe the verdict rendered today is excessive,\" said City Attorney Kathryn Levy. \"We expect there will be a motion for a new trial as well as an appeal.\"The jury also ruled that officer Brett Lampiris-Tremba must pay $2.7 million in punitive damages for shooting Ellis, while Ellis had a gun pointed at his own neck.\"The man who murdered my son should've never been an officer, never,\" said Wharton.The jury agreed that Lampiris-Tremba had a history of problems in the APD, and the department was negligent in keeping him on the force.One city leader said the administration didn't have much time to review Lampiris-Tremba.\"Ultimately, one month into the (Mayor Richard) Berry administration in January is when this incident happened, and it's a troubling situation,\" said Rob Perry, chief administrative officer.Perry said that before the trial began the Ellis family's attorney declined a $1.3 million settlement offer. The family countered with a $10 million offer of their own, which is ultimately about what the jury awarded."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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