Posted: Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:02 am

Survivors of an 11-year-old girl killed when struck by a sheriff’s cruiser July 17, 2008 received a $220,000 settlement from Rutherford County.

Pedestrian Lakeisha White of Hopkinsville, Ky., died from injuries suffered in the crash on Bradyville Pike with former sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Killings.

Killings faces trial Feb. 8 on reckless homicide charges.

Lakeisha’s mother, Montessa Gomez, filed a civil lawsuit three weeks after her daughter’s death seeking $7.5 million for the wrongful death and loss of her daughter, the lawsuit stated. Her six minor siblings Montavious White, George Gomez, La Mon Thornton, Ebonie Gomez, Courtney Gomez and Brooklyn Thornton sought $250,000 apiece.

Her grandmother Brenda Carneal and her cousins, Rayneshia Coleman, Terry Coleman and Moniaveshia Collier, all asked for $250,000 apiece for suffering from observing the crash or being within the “zone of danger,” the lawsuit stated.

Under a settlement approved by Chancellor Robert Corlew,

• Mother Gomez received $170,500.

• Carneal received $11,157.58.

• Cousins Kim Coleman received $9,560.26. while her three minor children received $19,282.16.

• Lakeisha’s five brothers and sisters received $100 each. Another brother received $9,000.

After the settlement, Corlew dismissed the lawsuit.