The parents of an unarmed man fatally shot by a Florida sheriff’s sergeant at the family’s nursery announced that they have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement and called for the reopening of a criminal investigation into their son’s death.
Dick and Lydia Adams said the payment by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is only partial justice for the May 16, 2012, shooting of Seth Adams, 24, by Sgt. Michael Custer. Local and federal prosecutors should now re-examine the case and charge Custer with a crime, they said. A previous investigation by the sheriff’s office cleared Custer, although the federal judge who presided over the family’s lawsuit has since called the probe “slipshod.”
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