Ravens' Lewis reaches settlement with victim's daughter

ATLANTA -- Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis reached a financial settlement with the daughter of one of two men killed in a fight after the Super Bowl in January 2000, avoiding a civil trial scheduled to begin next month.

Thomas Carlock, Lewis' Atlanta-based attorney, said Sunday the agreement was reached Thursday.

"The parties reached an amicable resolution and the case will be dismissed," Carlock said, adding that both sides agreed no details would be released.

Carlock would not comment on a report in The Baltimore Sun that Lewis agreed to pay at least $1 million to settle the case.

The settlement compensates 4-year-old India Lollar, the daughter of Richard Lollar, a barber stabbed to death outside a nightclub in the Buckhead district of Atlanta. India Lollar was born shortly after his death.

Carlock confirmed Lewis was in Atlanta for the settlement agreement Thursday.

The settlement, which followed three mediation sessions between the parties, pre-empted a potential civil trial scheduled to begin June 14.

Carlock said the suit against Lewis and co-defendants Reginald Oakley, Joseph Sweeting, Kwame King and Carlos Stafford will be dropped "soon."

A suit filed by the family of the other victim in the fight was settled previously. Terms were not disclosed.

Michael Weinstock, an attorney representing the Lollar family, told the Baltimore paper the case was "settled to the satisfaction of the parties."

Atlanta authorities charged Lewis with two counts of murder and four other felony counts in the Jan. 30, 2000, deaths of Lollar and Jacinth Baker. Co-defendants in the case were Oakley and Sweeting. King and Stafford were not charged.

All the felony counts were eventually dropped against Lewis, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges and was sentenced to a year of probation. He testified against Oakley and Sweeting, who were found not guilty in June 2000. No one else was charged in the killings.