The family of a slain 83-year-old Texas woman was awarded $7.3 billion in damages against Charter Communications – after an off-duty cable guy stabbed her to death during a robbery gone awry, according to a report. Betty Thomas was murdered in December 2019 by admitted killer Roy Holden Jr. – an off-duty worker for Charter company Spectrum cable – who had come to her Irving home the day prior for a service call, according to a report by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The next day Holden returned his uniform and work van – which he accessed with a company key card – to rob Thomas. In the process, he stabbed her, leaving her to die in front of her television. Holden was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty last year, the outlet reported. A Dallas County jury found Charter liable in Thomas’ death awarding her family the staggering settlement Tuesday. The jury rendered a $7 billion verdict in punitive damages – in the punishment portion of the trial – after already awarding the family $357 million in compensatory damages late last month, the news site reported. Spectrum is on the hook for 90% of the damages. “This was a shocking breach of faith by a company that sends workers inside millions of homes every year,” Thomas’s family’s lawyer, Chris Hamilton said in a statement. “This verdict justly reflects the extensiv …