The shooting victim of a Las Vegas brawl connected to Adam “Pacman” Jones has filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court asking it to enforce a civil judgment awarded against Jones by a Nevada jury.
Last August a jury in Clark County Nevada awarded Thomas Urbanski $12 million and his then-wife Kathleen Ryan nearly $ 1 million after Urbanski was left paralyzed by the shooting. Police said Jones sparked a brawl at a Las Vegas strip club during the 2007 NBA All-Star weekend by tossing money into the air and that his associate, Arvin Kenti Edwards, fired into a group of people outside the club.
Urbanski and Ryan’s Georgia attorney filed a “notice of filing of foreign judgment” against Jones with the Fulton court on June 25, according to a copy of the filing. Jones, an Atlanta native who plays for the Cincinnati Bengals, has appealed the judgment.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Jones for the 2007 season and part of 2008 for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Cincinnati police recently arrested Jones after a woman accused him of slapping her. Jones said he acted in self-defense after the woman threw a beer bottle at him because he refused to pose for a photo.
Jones, 29, spoke at the NFL’s rookie symposium last week. According to Fox Sports, Jones told SiriusXM NFL radio that he talked to the rookies about topics such as dealing with the demands of family and friends and handling finances.
Jones also said he avoids returning to Atlanta because of the potential to fall into bad habits.
“It’s not that I can’t handle it. But the crowd I used to hang out with, they’re still doing the same things and don’t have anything to lose,” Jones said, according to Fox Sports. “When I was hanging with them and doing the thing they were doing, there was nobody there to tell me, ‘No, Pac. You shouldn’t go in the strip club tonight. No, Pac. It isn’t cool that you want to fight with that dude.’ With time, you grow.”
Jones added: “Everybody when I’m in Atlanta wants to come to my house to get in the pool and drink liquor,” Jones said, according to Fox Sports. “I’m not with that. The last time I went home there was no liquor at my house. If you are coming over here, don’t bring liquor—period.”
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