"While at the sleepover several white students shot [Smith's son] with BB guns. When he was asleep they slapped him, all while calling him racial slurs. And worse yet, they forced [Smith's son] to drink their urine. [Smith's son] had been subjected to the unthinkable. He is in need of therapy and is planning to change to a private school, a fundraiser set up for Smith's son read. The fundraiser brought in more than $100,000."
"Vann's lawsuit claimed that Smith and Cole had decided to capitalize on the situation to the maximum extent possible and embarked embarked on a campaign, all of a sudden claiming the events were racially motivated and that the boys had invited [Smith's son] to the party for the purpose of playing out some sadistic racist fantasy. This wasn't me doing a racist act. This isn't me hating someone because of their skin color. This was me at an immature stage of my life at a sleepover for my birthday, doing immature dumb things, Vann told WFAA about the incident."
"Ultimately, [Smith's son] went to sleep first. The group, as they had planned for whoever fell asleep first, decided to play a childish and immature prank on their friend. In short, the boys filled a cup with apple juice, and (to the extent they could), one or more boys dribbled a bit of urine into the juice. They then woke"
A Collin County jury awarded $3.2 million to 19-year-old Asher Vann, finding that Summer Smith and attorney Kim Cole caused him emotional distress and publicized private information. Collin County District Judge Benjamin Smith upheld the jury verdict. Smith's family alleged that at a February 2021 birthday sleepover several white students shot their son with BB guns, slapped him while shouting racial slurs, and forced him to drink urine; a fundraiser for the son raised more than $100,000. Vann's lawsuit alleges Smith and Cole capitalized on the incident and framed it as racially motivated, while Vann describes the events as an immature sleepover prank.
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