Mark Drewes was 16 when he was shot and killed on October 25, 2003, in Boca Raton, Florida. He and a friend, Anatoly Martynenko, were ringing doorbells in a late-night prank known as Ding-Dong Ditch. Mark approached the home of a neighbor, 40-year-old Jay Levin, who retrieved a .40-caliber handgun and fired a shot, striking Mark in the back as he fled.

Levin was arrested and charged with manslaughter; in 2004 he pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 52 weekends in jail, 10 years probation and 1,250 hours of community service. The plea required Levin to pay $2.50 per week to a scholarship fund named in Mark’s memory and to publicly take responsibility for his actions. In 2007 Mark’s parents, Gregory and Luciana Drewes, won a Palm Beach County jury verdict awarding $750,000 in compensatory damages. Levin later filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2012 listing $4,502 in assets and more than $1 million in liabilities; a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled the debt to the Drewes could not be discharged.

The family has spoken of ongoing grief and frustration over the legal aftermath. Does anyone have first-hand information about the incident or the later civil and bankruptcy proceedings?