The parents of a 3-year-old boy killed by a falling tree limb while playing at a South Carolina park are getting $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit.
Jacoby Latta was playing during a church picnic at Irmo Community Park in 2014 when a large limb fell and hit him in the head.
The State newspaper reports the family of the boy is getting $400,000 from Irmo. The rest of the money will come from a half-dozen companies involved in the designing and building of the park which had been open less than a month.
The family’s lawyer says they agreed not to talk publicly about the settlement as part of the deal.
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