ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 75 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY MONDAY | FEBRUARY 4, 2019 MONDAY PROFILE Court filing reveals $500K awarded in Kersh case Payment split among 3 in case over accident that killed MSU track athlete BY ALEX HOLLOWAY
[email protected] An Oktibbeha County Circuit Court filing has shed light on how much each party in a civil case against the Mississippi Department of Pub- lic Safety received in court-ordered payments. Lee In June, Mississip- pi 16th Circuit Judge Lee Coleman ordered MDPS to pay $500,000 in the case of Tanequa Alexander v. Mis- sissippi Department of Public Safety. The case spawned from a May 2017 wreck on Highway 182 that injured Zack Plair/Dispatch Staff Alexander and Noel Collier and killed Gerald “Boo” Matthews Jr. leaps in an attempt to make it across the “Big Baller” bouncy house at a youth group Super former Mississippi State University Bowl watch party Sunday in the Starkville First United Methodist Church gymnasium. Matthews is a plant scientist who student-athlete Kaelin Kersh. volunteers with various church functions and even holds a second job as a Starkville-MSU Area Rapid Transit driver. On Jan. 9, Coleman ordered the payments to be divided between Al- exander, Collier and the Kersh estate. According to the order, which was Gerald ‘Boo’ Matthews works, plays filed on Jan. 14, Alexander received $133,333, Collier received $83,333 and the Kersh estate received $283,334. to help his Starkville community The wreck happened on May 7, 2017, at the intersection of Mayhew BY ZACK PLAIR all on cell phone video for posterity.