 Shares of Charter Communications Inc. CHTR, -2.38 dropped 2.1 in afternoon trading Tuesday toward a 3 12-year low, buy pared earlier losses of as much as 2.7, after a Texas judge reduced what the cable company must pay in damages to a murder victims family to 1.15 billion, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Previously, a Texas jury had found the company liable for 7 billion in punitive damages, after finding the company liable for one of its employees who robbed and killed a customer in 2019, the WSJ reported. 