Family of Wade Steffey receives $500K from Purdue

Purdue University has settled with the family of Wade Steffey for $500,000, the family attorney said in a press conference today. The Purdue freshman died Jan. 13 in an accidental electrocution on campus.\n“It is the resolution, and the fact of the resolution that makes it their responsibility for the accident,” W. Scott Montross , the Steffey’s attorney said. \nAn additional $100,000 will be used to fund the Wade Steffey Memorial Scholarship, which will grant scholarships every year to incoming freshman. This year, four students will receive the scholarship. \nThough the university has not officially taken responsibility for the accident, the settlement implies that they do to some extent, Montross said. \n“I don’t know that we are laying blame, we were asking the university for answers and to take responsibility if responsibility fell there, and they responded,” said Dale Steffey , Wade Steffey’s father. \nNo Purdue University officials attended the press conference, which was held in Indianapolis .