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Dallas Jury Rules for Defendants in Wrongful Death Suit by Family of Electrocuted Worker

A Dallas County jury ruled Tuesday in favor of the defendants in a wrongful death suit stemming from the 2019 electrocution of a worker at a West Texas midstream energy plant.

On their second day of deliberation, jurors in the court of state District Judge Monica McCoy Purdy awarded damages of $3.94 million to the family of electrician Gabriel Vela, who was killed May 4, 2019, while working in the motor control center of the Lobo III midstream gas facility in Luling County, operated by EnLink Midstream of Dallas.

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