ccfj.net: Guard’s gunfire to cost condo

Article Courtesy of The Palm Beach Post

By Jane Musgrave —October 14, 2013

By his own admission, Jack Abrams lost it when a woman left the door to the laundry room open at Northlake Villa Condominium one day in January 2010.Before he was done venting about the woman’s carelessness, Abrams had pumped three bullets into her boyfriend, who had merely popped his head into the hallway to find out what all the shouting was about.  The bloody incident may have ended last year when Abrams, 40, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting Tim Gwinnell, who was unarmed. But because Abrams had been appointed by the condo board to enforce its rules and regulations, a Palm Beach County jury last week found the board was liable for Abrams’ inexplicable fit of anger. After deliberating for roughly five hours, a jury agreed the North Palm Beach condominium should pay $1.5 million to the 56-year-old Gwinnell, who underwent 24 blood transfusions, 12 surgeries, including facial reconstruction, and faces additional operations to rebuild his bullet-ravaged body.  Read more: