An African-American teenager who was shot in the back of the head—after he had surrendered to a white Fulton County police officer and knelt down on the ground—will receive $2 million to settle a federal civil rights case brought on his behalf by his mother, the family’s attorney said Monday.
Atlanta attorney Craig Jones said the settlement, finalized Friday, will be used to set up a special needs trust for the young man, identified only as D.M.C. in court records, who survived the shooting but has incurred more than $1 million in medical bills and undergone more than a dozen surgeries to repair catastrophic injuries. He was 16 when he was shot and is now 21, Jones said.
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