Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of 2017 lawsuit against Biddeford police
Susan Johnson and Jocelyne Welch alleged that a Biddeford police officer's actions led landlord James Pak to shoot and kill their teenage children in 2012.
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Susan Johnson and Jocelyne Welch alleged that a Biddeford police officer's actions led landlord James Pak to shoot and kill their teenage children in 2012.
A Maine police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from claims that he escalated a dispute between a landlord and his tenants, resulting in the landlord shooting the tenants and a friend, the First Circuit said.
Susan Johnson and Jocelyn Welch have spent years arguing that an officer contributed to the deaths of their children when their landlord shot them in 2012.
U.S. District Judge Jon Levy once again rules that Biddeford officers are not at fault for the 2012 murders of Derrick Thompson, 19, and Alivia Welch, 18, citing qualified immunity for police.
Wounded in gunfire after a dispute with her landlord in Biddeford in 2012, Susan Johnson talks about the crime that robbed her of two loved ones ... and much more.