Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- The City of Ogden is asking a federal judge to throw out a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit in the case of a man killed in a shootout with police.
In a motion filed Oct. 30, the city's lawyers say Jesse Turnbow, 29, was still pointing a sawed-off shotgun at police -- or at least reaching for it -- when three officers opened fire in December 2006. The motion says witnesses' accounts support the officers' story.
A lawsuit filed by Turnbow's family and common-law wife says Turnbow had given up and set his gun aside, and even put his hands in the air, before officers fired.
Weber County prosecutors who investigated the shooting in 2007 cleared the officers of wrongdoing.
------
Information from: Standard-Examiner
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
