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WILMINGTON — One month before a civil suit filed by a prior crime lab supervisor against local law enforcement goes to trial, the plaintiffs have submitted a…
Judges now say the police officer does not necessarily have legal immunity in the fatal shooting that killed Ruben Galindo.
The family of a Charlotte father fatally shot in 2017 during a six-second confrontation with Charlotte-Mecklenburg police has appealed a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the officer involved, our partners at the Charlotte Observer reported. U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad of Charlotte said Officer David Guerra acted reasonably — and legally — on Sept. 6, 2017, when he twice shot Ruben Galindo near Sugar Creek Road and Interstate 85. Police are legally justified to use deadly force if they have a “reasonably objective&#...
Franklin was shot in the parking lot of the west Charlotte restaurant as he appeared to be complying with police commands to drop his gun.
The family of a man who was shot and killed by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the City of Charlotte.