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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - County authorities have agreed to pay $2.4 million to the family of a teenager who died after being roughed up by guards at a state-supervised boot camp, an attorney for the family said Tuesday.
Added to a $5 million claim being fast-tracked through the Legislature, the deal brings the total settlement over the death last year of Martin Lee Anderson to $7.4 million, said the family's attorney, Ben Crump. The family had sued for $40 million.
"The parents did not want to go through two lengthy trials and reliving the traumatic events that surrounded the death of their son," Crump said.
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