BOSTON (AP) — A former dean at a Boston high school known affectionately by students as “Rev” has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $10 million in damages to a former student he was convicted of trying to kill in a dispute over drug sales.
The default judgment Friday against former English High School Dean Shaun Harrison includes $7.5 million in damages for pain, suffering & emotional distress; $2.5 million in punitive damages & more than $80,000 for the victim’s medical bills.
Harrison was convicted in state court in 2018 of assault & other charges & sentenced to up to 26 years in prison.
Harrison, who had a background as a community organizer and youth minister, was dean of academics, a job that required keeping order and mentoring students.
But he was leading a double life. He had ties to the violent Latin Kings gang, recruited students to sell drugs for him & kept a gun at his apartment.
The victim, who had been recruited by Harrison to sell weed, was 17 when he was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range in Boston in March 2015.
The bullet barely missed the victim’s brain stem & carotid artery, but shattered his jaw. He underwent 2 surgeries, had his jaw wired shut for 9 months, remains paralyzed on half of his face, suffers from facial neuropathy, hearing loss & requires weights on his eyelids to help with opening & shutting his eyes. He continues to experience pain from the bullet that remains lodged in his head & developed an addiction to opioids prescribed for the pain.
It’s unclear whether the victim will ever get any money from Harrison.
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