Family Of Crew Member Killed On Allman Movie Set Awarded $11.2M

A Georgia jury has awarded more than $11.2 million to the family of a film crew member who was killed in 2014 on the set of a biographical movie about rock singer Gregg Allman, court records show. A six-day trial in the State Court of Chatham County concluded late Monday with the jury unanimously agreeing on the civil award to Jones was killed when a moving train hit props and equipment staged on a railroad bridge and trestle south of Savannah for the never-completed film "Midnight Rider," about Allman, who died in May. After the award, her parents, Richard and Elizabeth Jones, said they had spent more than three years trying to understand how their daughter lost her life.