A Connecticut city where police officers and dispatchers were accused of negligence and ethnic discrimination in their response to what became a murder-suicide in 2010 has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the victim’s family for $3 million.
The estate of Turkish immigrant Shengyl Rasim sued the city of West Haven, two police officers and two dispatchers in 2011. The estate’s lawyer, Joel Faxon, of the Faxon Law Group in New Haven, said a settlement recently was reached and is pending probate court approval. The city did not admit any wrongdoing, he said.
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