NORFOLK
A Tidewater Community College professor who became the center of a murder-for-hire plot by a colleague has accepted a $90,000 payment to settle her lawsuit against the state, the attorney general's office said Tuesday.
Kimberly A. Perez, an associate professor of information systems technology, sued the college, three supervisors and the commonwealth earlier this year in federal court after another professor was convicted in the plot to kill her.
Jay Glosser, who is serving an 8 1/2-year prison term, arranged through two accomplices to have Perez killed because of a sexual harassment complaint she filed against him. The accomplices also were convicted after the murder plot fell apart.
Perez said in her lawsuit that college officials ignored her complaints about Glosser and failed to protect her. The case had been scheduled for trial in October, but both sides had been working out details of the settlement for several weeks.
A federal judge had previously dismissed from the case Perez's supervisors and the college, leaving only the state as a defendant.
Perez's attorney and a spokesman for Attorney General Bob McDonnell said all other terms of the settlement were confidential.
- Tim McGlone
Trial in Mormon's killing to resume
CHESAPEAKE
The trial of James Boughton Jr., a Deep Creek man accused of killing a Mormon missionary and wounding another in 2006, will resume next week after an extended Thanksgiving holiday.
The prosecution - which will not conclude its case until after the break - continued presenting evidence Monday, the only day of testimony this week.
Mormon missionaries Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley, Colo., and Morgan W. Young of Bountiful, Utah, were proselytizing door-to-door on the night of Jan. 2, 2006 when, the prosecution contends, they unwittingly walked into a drug dispute. Heidbrink was shot in the shoulder. Young, 21, died of a 9 mm gunshot wound to the head.
Boughton, a 21-year-old Camelot resident, is charged with first-degree murder, malicious wounding, attempted malicious wounding and three counts of use of a firearm.
The trial began Nov. 10 and was initially expected to last two weeks. The jury took three days to seat, followed by opening argu ments Nov. 17. Heidbrink testified last week.
The trial resumes at 10 a.m. Monday.
- Kristin Davis
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