An Atlanta law firm has successfully defended an apartment complex’s management company in a premises liability lawsuit filed by the mother of a boy killed in an accidental shooting incident.

Senior Judge Ben W. Studdard III. (Photo: John Disney/ALM)

In a six-day trial in Fulton County State Court before Ben Studdard III, a senior Henry County State Court judge, the jury on Nov. 17 ruled in the defense’s favor. On July 4, 2017, Sincere Jordan, 10, died when he and three other boys, including his brother, were playing with a gun at a neighbor’s home at the Rolling Bends Apartments in Atlanta and it went off.