Traumatic Brain Injury: Man Given $9M for Brain Injury Suffered in Beating

Billy Ray Johnson, 46, a mentally disabled black man who was taunted, beaten, and left in a field by four white men in 2003, has been awarded $9 million for the injuries he suffered as a result of the ordeal. Johnson still is in a nursing home. The men who assaulted him were fined and given probation and jail time, but none served more than 60 days in jail.

Jury Awards Man $9 Million to US Man Who Suffered Brain Injury in Beating

Johnson functioned at the mental level of a child at the time of the attack. Dallas Chadwick Stone, John Wesley Owens, James Cory Hicks, and Christopher Colt Amox lured Johnson to a party, gave him alcohol, and teased him for their amusement. Johnson was discovered unconscious on a fire ant mound with a serious concussion and bleeding in the brain.