Settlement reached in police shooting of Iraq war veteran

Settlement reached in police shooting of Iraq war veteran
KOB News4
Elizabeth Reed
January 28, 2014

A judge's approval is needed to finalize the city of Albuquerque's nearly $8 million settlement with the family of an Iraq war veteran who was fatally shot by an officer.

In 2010, APD officer Brett Lampiris Tremba shot and killed Kenneth Ellis while Ellis held a gun to his own head.

Last March, a jury awarded a total of $10.2 million to the son of the Iraq war veteran.
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I could keep posting these stories but here are just a few more on how often this happens.

May 11, 2010 Joshua James Gerard (wife) watched in horror as a deputy sheriff shot her husband Sunday as he pointed a shotgun at the law-enforcement officer.

July 10, 2010 James F. Popkowski " former U.S. Marine fatally shot by law enforcement officers near a veterans hospital Thursday was remembered by friends Friday as a generous, considerate man who struggled heroically to overcome a rare form of cancer and believed strongly in his right to carry a gun."

August 29, 2010 Brandon Barrett, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was wearing full battle gear and carrying a loaded rifle when a police officer confronted him in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday afternoon. A police spokeswoman said Barrett opened fire, striking the officer in the leg. The officer returned fire, killing the 28-year-old soldier, whose bloodied body fell in a patch of grass behind the Grand America Hotel, near one of the city’s busiest intersections.

September 2, 2010 Edward Zevola Sr.