DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A county commission has agreed to pay a man convicted of murder $75,000 after he said a jailer broke his jaw.
According to our investigative partners at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and AJC.com, DeKalb County commissioners voted Tuesday to pay 24-year-old Demetre Mason after county attorneys recommended the payment rather than going to trial and risking a larger award.
Mason sued after he said he was attacked by guards while awaiting trial.
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The jail workers deny the allegations, but Sheriff Jeffrey Mann said both officers were suspended after the incident.
Mason is in the Hancock State Prison serving a life sentence for the 2014 deaths of 21-year-old Shaniqua Camacho and 20-year-old Sonia Williams.
Authorities have said a gang boss ordered Mason and several others to kill the women after Williams called the leader an insulting name.