Board Denies Claim in Case of Slain Auburn Student
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A state board has denied a $1 million claim brought by the parents of a slain Auburn University student, but her parents said they will continue their fight for better campus security.
The Alabama Board of Adjustment on Wednesday denied the claim brought by the parents of Lauren Burk. Â Her father, Jim Burk, said the family’s goal was not money but to encourage Auburn to reinstate a campus police force.
The family claimed the university’s decision to merge its police force with the city’s led to inadequate security on campus.
Burk was an 18-year-old freshman from Marietta, Georgia. She was kidnapped in 2008 from an Auburn dorm parking lot at gunpoint, forced to undress and was fatally shot when she tried to escape from her captor.
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