Parks & Crump Law Firm secures settlement for Trayvon Martin’s family

The Parks & Crump Law Firm proudly touts its motto: “We Help David Fight Goliath.” Last week, its attorneys reached a huge milestone in their battle to help Trayvon Martin’s parents fight a “Goliath” in Stanford, Fla.

Lead Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump and his partner, FAMU alumnus Daryl Parks, secured a wrongful death settlement from the homeowners’ association that represents the subdivision in which their son was fatally shot.

Trayvon Martin, 17, died in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012 after being shot to death by a self-declared neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman. Zimmerman, a 28 year-old white Hispanic, saw the African American teenager walking alone and called 911 to report him as a “suspicious” person. He then decided to follow Martin against the request of the 911 dispatcher.

When Sanford police arrived at the scene, Martin’s body was lying in the street. Zimmerman told the officers he fired on the unarmed high schooler in self-defense.

The late teenager’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, hired the Parks & Crump Law Firm to represent them. They took the homeowners’ association to task due to the fact that the neighborhood watch Zimmerman organized represented that group.

Crump declined to release any details about the amount that Martin’s parents will receive. But the Orlando Sentinel reported that: “It’s thought to be more than $1 million.”