Hearns To Pay Family Of Shooting Victim

DETROIT - Six-time boxing champion Thomas Hearns has agreed to pay $685,000 to the family of a woman shot to death at his home after a fight with his brother, said Marietta S. Robinson, lawyer for the victim's family.

The 2-year-old wrongful death lawsuit had been scheduled for trial in December. It was filed by the family of Nancy Barile, 19.

Hearns' brother, Henry, was convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting Barile after she threatened to leave him. He is serving a 20-year sentence.

Henry Hearns, 24, was a security guard at Thomas Hearns' Southfield home. According to testimony at the murder trial, he used a gun that Thomas Hearns kept in the house to shoot Barile, who had lived with him for about a year.