Dallas Jury Awards $375M in Charter Communications Technician’s 2019 Murder of 83-Year-Old Woman

A Dallas County jury found Charter Communications liable Thursday for the 2019 murder of an 83-year-old Irving woman by a Charter technician.

After less than four hours of deliberation, jurors awarded $375 million to the family of Betty Thomas and found that Charter, its telecommunication and media services branded as Spectrum, was 90 percent responsible for her death. That verdict could balloon when the same jury, having found Charter grossly negligent, begins considering punitive damages Monday.