The city of St. Paul has reached a $9.5 million settlement with the family of a teenager who was shot and critically injured by an employee at a city recreation center in 2023.
Exavir Binford Jr. is serving over 10 years for shooting then 16-year-old JuVaugn Turner at the Jimmy Lee/Oxford Recreation Center.
Turner's family sued the city claiming Binford had not been punished for punching a visitor at a different community center, and then threatening to shoot another visitor at the rec center.
Turner's family said during Binford's sentencing that Turner lives with permanent brain damage and suffers violent seizures regularly.
