The family of a carjacking suspect who was shot and killed by Illinois sheriff’s deputies during a police chase in 2023 has filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff’s office.
James Moriarty , 38, carjacked a woman in Aurora on May 24, 2023, and then led police on a chase for more than 10 minutes through several suburbs, before crashing at the intersection of Fabyan Road and Randall Parkway along the Geneva-Batavia border, after police used a PIT maneuver to stop the stolen car, Kane County Sheriff’s officials have said.
He got out of the car holding what sheriff’s police believed to be a handgun, and officers released a police dog, and ordered him to drop the weapon, but he ignored them, and started walking around his car towards civilians stopped in their cars…