The Fort Price Metropolis Council has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit introduced by Zion Carr, who witnessed a police officer fatally shoot his aunt 4 years in the past when he was 8 years previous. Atatiana Jefferson was watching her nephew at residence when a neighbor seen that her doorways have been open and the lights turned on. The neighbor known as 911 to ask that somebody conduct a welfare examine. However when Officer Aaron Dean and one other officer arrived, they handled it as a possible housebreaking in progress. With out asserting themselves as officers, they went to the again yard in search of indicators of a pressured entry. That is the place Dean shot Jefferson by way of a window. Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in jail.