The City of Chicago has agreed to pay more than $60,000 to attorneys who are suing over a fatal police shooting after a federal judge found the city delayed in producing the documents critical to a lawsuit.
The agreement — forged earlier this month and enforced by a federal court order — to pay $62,500 to the attorneys for the mother of Divonte Young came after U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall found the city acted in “bad faith” when Young’s attorneys subpoenaed records of the shooting, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Gottschall eventually ordered the production of the records.
Fox 32 reports that the lawsuit was filed by Young’s mother in August 2013, one year after a plainclothes Chicago Police officer shot and killed the 20-year-old man near the corner of 63rd and Honore in West Englewood. The case is pending.
Authorities said the officer shot him after Young was seen shooting at other people. The shooting was found justified after an 18-month-long investigation by the since-disbanded Independent Police Review Authority. An autopsy found Young was shot in the back. No weapon was found near him, nor did his hands have traces of gunshot residue.