After a three-week trial and two days of deliberation, a jury in Barstow has awarded $32.2 million to a 17-year-old boy who was left quadriplegic after jumping from a moving pickup truck on Highway 127 in 2003.

Dillon Elkins, now 17, and another boy approached football player, Robert Murchison asking for a ride in Murchison's already full pickup truck. Murchison alleged he said no, because the cab of the truck was full, and that Dillon and the other boy got into the truck bed on their own.

In court documents, Dillon's attorney contended that Murchison told the two young boys that if he saw a cop that they should jump out. When Murchison saw a CHP vehicle going in the opposite direction, he told the boys to jump, resulting in Dillon hitting his head on the pavement, and sustaining massive brain injuries.

Sherry Setter, Dillon's mother, said she was relieved the trial was over and that her son will be able to get necessary medical care. The driver's attorney declined to discuss the case.