An Arkansas judge has ruled in favor of the cousin of Jermain Taylor regarding a 2014 shooting incident after the former Olympian didn't appear at a court hearing.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Taylor - a former two-time middleweight world champion - is currently serving a six-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to nine felony charges in 2015, including those related to a shooting that left his cousin Tyrone DaWayne Hinton in critical condition.

Hinton filed a lawsuit against Taylor in 2015 seeking compensatory and punitive damages for medical bills related to the shooting.

Taylor's representatives told a Pulaski County Circuit judge Thursday that Taylor was in Florida, with no money and no intention of attending his hearing in Little Rock.

A trial date to determine the amount Taylor owes Hinton will be scheduled.

A bullet still remains inches from Hinton's spine, too close for physicians to remove without risking his life, according to his attorney Donald Campbell.

At the time of the shooting, Hinton was employed by Taylor to assist him in preparing for a fight against Sergio Mora in February 2015.

On Aug. 26, 2014 at Taylor's home in Arkansas, the boxer confronted Hinton over some damage he saw on the exterior of his vehicle - which Hinton was using earlier that day. When they denied having caused any damage, Taylor went into his home and came back with a gun.

Taylor then shot Hinton five times as he ran down the driveway. Hinton jumped back in a car and drove away as Taylor chased the car and continued to fire his gun.

Taylor's attorneys, Hubert Alexander and Allison Allred, filed a motion to be relieved from the case as Taylor's counsel.

"The attorney-client relationship has reached an impasse in that [we] have had very little or no contact with the Defendant since December 1, 2015," the attorneys wrote in their motion. "And Defendant has not paid the agreed upon retainer for services."

Taylor faces two similar suits related to episodes of erratic and violent behavior.

Months after the shooting of Hinton, Taylor was arrested after he had threatened a family of five with a pistol and fired two rounds into the air during Little Rock's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in January 2015. The family has now filed a civil suit asking for damages for Taylor causing "extreme fear and severe emotional pain and emotional distress."

And other civil suit is pending against Taylor, over a second-degree battery charge after Jason Isaac Condon was attacked by the boxer while the two were in a rehabilitation program together in 2015. Condon's suit seeks compensation for medical expenses, injuries and mental anguish. A pretrial hearing for that case is scheduled for October.