A joint notice of settlement was filed in a Texas federal court Wednesday by Daquan Huey – now 21, was 17 when his left eye was blinded – by TTPD officer Scott Lillis. Huey was found not guilty of resisting arrest by a Bowie County jury in March of this year in connection with the Jan. 27, 2019, incident.
Lillis was among the officers who responded to a call about a large crowd fighting in the Brookwood Drive area of Texarkana on Jan. 27, 2019. Lillis claimed Huey knew he was being detained by a police officer when he pulled the trigger on his JPX pepper spray gun and struck the teen’s face at close range.
Huey’s mother, Miracle Farr, launched the federal civil rights lawsuit about a month after Huey was injured.
