Wal-Mart has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a 19-year-old store clerk who was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed following her night shift.
The employee, Megal Leann Holden, was kidnapped in January 2005, from the parking lot of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Tyler. Johnny Lee Williams, Jr. later pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to life.
Holden's parents, Sheri Kay Dunlap and James Vincent Holden sued Wal-Mart and the store's security company, the Wackenhut Corporation, alleging that the companies' negligence resulted in their daughter's death.
Dunlap and Holden said the terms of the settlement are confidential. The lawsuit had been scheduled to go to trial tomorrow.
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