Lawyers for a Black St. Louis teenager who was shot and killed 10 years ago today by white police officers said the city needs to pay the family the nearly $19 million awarded by a jury in a wrongful death lawsuit that went to trial earlier this year.
The case involves the 2015 killing of Mansur Ball-Bey. He was shot by two St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers, Kyle Chandler and Ronald Vaughan, who were conducting a search warrant on the 1200 block of Walton Avenue.
Ball-Bey’s father, Dennis Ball-Bey, sued St. Louis, Chandler and Vaughan in 2018 in federal court. At trial five years later, a jury ruled against the city, finding it violated Ball-Bey’s civil rights in the killing. The city has since filed several motions, arguing that it should have been able to present certain arguments during the trial, including photos showing Ball-Bey smoking weed. That court has yet to rule on the city’s motions seeking a new trial…