(KRON) — The City of San Jose will pay $1 million to a homicide suspect’s family after he was fatally shot by police and mauled by a K9, according to reports. The homicide suspect, David Tovar, Jr., was a fugitive and unarmed at the time of his death on January 21, 2021, investigators said.
The Tovar family’s attorney, Adante Pointer, wrote Wednesday, “Too many folks are shot and killed by police for supposedly reaching for a gun we later find out they never had! The phantom gun excuse is weak and wore out! Period.”
San Jose’s $1-million settlement, reached Tuesday by the city council, resolves a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Pointer’s law firm on behalf of Tovar’s children, the Mercury News reported…