Jerry Lawler’s wrongful death lawsuit against Hardeman County, Tennessee over the death of his son Brian has been dismissed.
As we’ve been reporting here on eWn, the WWE Hall of Famer filed a lawsuit against the county back in 2019 after Brian, who performed in WWE as Brian Christopher and Grandmaster Sexay, died while incarcerated for a DUI arrest in July of 2018. The lawsuit had been delayed many times and had a March 31, 2025 date set for a jury trial. The lawsuit was dismissed on September 4th by The U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee (Jackson).
A filing of the court’s decision states the following,
“Plaintiff had failed to present evidence from which a jury could find that the individual officers knew that the Decedent possessed a ‘strong likelihood’ of suicide, and disregarded that knowledge; therefore, Plaintiff could not show that the individual defendants were subjectively aware of such a risk.”
Additionally, the original court ruling allowing some parts of the lawsuit was based on a 2021 precedent. However, with Brian Lawler having passed in 2018, it was ruled that an earlier precedent should have applied and the earlier precedent was in favor of the defendants. As such, the determination was made to dismiss the entirety of the suit.
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