ANDERSON, Ind. — A lawsuit filed in late May alleges a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an Indianapolis man in Anderson last year did so “without any lawful justification” and then tried to cover up what really happened.
Four-year veteran Madison County Sheriff’s Deputy Mason Brizendine fatally shot 44-year-old La’Taurus Harrison on June 1, 2024. Harrison was in a car parked in the driveway of his mother’s home when he was killed.
Lawyers for his mother, on behalf of Harrison’s estate, filed a lawsuit on May 31, calling for a jury trial for the civil claims against Brizendine and two other deputies present when Harrison was killed.
‘Murdered… in front of his mother – in the driveway’
According to the lawsuit, Harrison “was not causing any harm to anyone and posed no immediate threat.”…