Judge allows lawsuit against Maine officer who killed veteran to go forward
Bangor Daily News
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted Oct. 06, 2015
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge has ruled that an excessive force lawsuit over the death of a troubled Army veteran may go forward but only against the officer, not the police chief or the town of Farmington.
The parents of a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who was shot and killed nearly four years ago in front of the Farmington police station filed a wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit in 2013 against the town, Police Chief Jack Peck, and Ryan Rosie, the officer who shot and killed Justin Michael Crowley-Smilek on Nov. 19, 2011.
The Maine attorney general’s office in May 2012 found that Rosie was justified in shooting Crowley-Smilek, 26, of Farmington. The report said that Rosie took cover behind a police cruiser after Crowley-Smilek ignored demands that he take his hands out of his pockets. Rosie fired after the veteran took a butcher knife out of his pocket and charged at the officer.
The lawsuit, filed in November 2013 in federal court in Portland by Hunter Tzovarras, the Bangor attorney representing Crowley-Smilek’s parents, claimed that the veteran went to the Farmington police station the day he was killed to ask for help “regarding mental health services.”
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