LOS ANGELES — The mother and son of a 27-year-old man shot and killed after picking up food at a South Los Angeles shopping center in 2017 have settled their long-running wrongful death/negligence suit against the property owners.

Lotanaka Nicole Smiley Williams brought the wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court in November 2019 on behalf of herself and her grandson, who was 7 years old at the time of the death of his father, Antonio Maurice Wilson. The boy is now 14 years old.

The defendants are Vermont Square and Charles Peter Scurich, identified in the complaint as the owners of the commercial center at 43rd Street and Vermont Avenue.

On Thursday, Williams’ attorneys filed a notice of “unconditional” settlement with Judge Lee S. Arian. No terms were divulged.

Los Angeles police previously said that Wilson, who was known in the community as Tony, was in a group of people standing in the parking lot of the shopping center after picking up his food to take home when someone walked up and fired shots into the crowd about 6 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017. The shooter fled to a waiting car, the suit states.

Wilson underwent surgeries for gunshot injuries to his colon, liver and heart before he died on Nov. 30, 2017, according to the complaint.

In their previous court papers, defense attorneys denied Williams’ allegations and cited multiple defenses, including that Wilson “freely and voluntarily” placed himself in danger.

According to the lawsuit, the shopping center “was a hub of criminal and gang activity and was the site of multiple shootings.”

The previous crimes at the location included murder, drive-by shootings, robberies, attempted robberies, batteries and a constant presence of gang members, according to the complaint, which says that a man was shot five times outside a nail salon located within the center in one of the earlier incidents that year.

Despite knowing about such violence, the shopping center owners did not have any security guards present or any type of security protection system in place to protect patrons, the suit stated.

Wilson lived with his mother and was a singer-songwriter who had studied to be an ultrasound technician so that he could help support his mother and son, the suit stated.