CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney says the city of Chicago has settled a federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting in 2013 by a white police officer was caught on video.
The lawyer representing the family of 17-year-old Cedrick Chatman didn’t release details of the settlement because it must be approved by the Chicago City Council. However, attorney Brian Coffman says Chatman’s mother is looking forward to finally getting “some closure and moving on.” The case was scheduled for trial later this month.
Chicago Law Department spokesman Bill McCaffrey declined to comment.
Chatman was suspected in a carjacking. Officers chasing him have said they believed he had a gun, but he was found to be unarmed.
