More than five years after Manuel “Manny” Ellis was killed during a police encounter on his way home from a Tacoma convenience store, the city will pay his family $6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.
The settlement comes after Ellis’ family received $4 million in 2022 as part of another settlement with Pierce County.
“This has been a long and painful journey for the Ellis family,” the family’s attorney James Bible said in a news release posted on Facebook. “They have remained steadfast in their pursuit of accountability and some measure of justice for Manny.”…