A settlement between AT&T Wireless and Allied Security brought an end Wednesday to a civil lawsuit stemming from the 1999 Triad Center fatal shooting.
The confidential settlement comes just one day after La Salle LLC, the company that manages Salt Lake City's Triad Center, reached a resolution with AT&T. M&S Triad, the building's mortgage holder, reached a similar agreement earlier this month.
Allied attorney Lynn Davies said the settlement is in no way an admission of guilt.
"I think Allied felt very good about their position and was not eager at all to settle," he said, adding the largely financial decision was made by the company's insurance agency.
AT&T sued for financial losses as a result of the shooting, in which human resources manager Anne Sleater, 30, was killed.
Managers say AT&T lost $1.9 million in revenues when the traumatized staff's productivity dropped following the shooting. AT&T Wireless eventually relocated its offices to Taylorsville.
The company contends the Triad Center could have done more to alert its tenants sooner that a shooter was in the building.
Police and prosecutors say 25-year-old De-Kieu Duy, a woman with a history of mental illness, confronted Sleater in her office and shot her in the head.
Duy faces five felony charges, including one count of capital murder, which carries the possibility of the death penalty.
Allied Security, La Salle and the building's landlords, M&S Seibel Inc. and M&S Triad Center L.P., all settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Sleater's husband in August. The terms of those settlements were also sealed.
AT&T spokeswoman Marsha Fetzer said the settlement will be taken back to AT&T employees, who will decide what to do with the money.
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