Last November, Kaitlin Armstrong, was sentenced to a 90-year prison sentence for the murder of pro gravel racer Moriah “Mo” Wilson. Now, a judge has ordered Armstrong to pay the Wilson family $15 million in damages.
The order follows a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by Karen and Eric Wilson, Moriah’s parents. Austin, Texas based news station KXAN reports that Judge Daniella DeSata Lyttle granted $5 million to each parent for “mental anguish, including emotional pain, torment and suffering from the death of [their] daughter.”
Another $2.5 million each was granted to Wilson’s parents for exemplary damages, “in an amount which the court determines sufficient to deter the same or similar actions which gave rise to this suit by [Armstrong] in the future.”
Attorney Randy Howry, the Wilsons’ representative in the lawsuit, made a point to KXAN that this lawsuit was to ensure that Armstrong never benefits financially from this case and the attention that comes from it, be it from a future book, a movie deal, or otherwise.
“If there’s ever an opportunity for her to financially benefit from this crime, this judgment will prevent her from getting any of that money until my clients are properly compensated,” Howry said.
“As a family, we are broken, incomplete, and will forever suffer the void of her presence on this earth,” Karen Wilson wrote in an affidavit as part of the lawsuit. “The empty chair at the family dining table, where she once sat, haunts every holiday and family get-together.”
“Rather than looking forward to sharing in her life and successes, we are faced with an emptiness hard to describe,” wrote Eric Wilson in his own affidavit. “There will be no cycling career, no future wedding or grandkids, only thoughts of wishing things could be different, wondering why this happened, and how we are going to live through the remaining years of our lives with this emotional pain.”
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