AURORA, Colo. — The family of Kilyn Lewis, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by police last year, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Aurora and the officer who shot him.
Lewis, 37, was ambushed by members of Aurora’s SWAT team who tried to arrest him on an attempted first-degree murder warrant from Denver.
Bodycam video from the shooting shows officers driving up to Lewis at the parking lot of an apartment complex before he was surrounded and ordered to get on the ground. Less than 10 seconds later, SWAT Officer Michael Dieck fired one shot after Lewis was seen moving one of his hands out of view to grab an object. That object was later determined to be a cellphone…