The fiancée of a man killed in a 50-shot barrage of police bullets just hours before their wedding filed a wrongful death suit yesterday, charging last year’s shooting was caused by poorly trained officers who recklessly opened fire outside a Queens strip club.

The federal lawsuit, which named the city, the New York Police Department, and five officers involved in the shooting, did not request a specific dollar amount in damages for Nicole Paultre-Bell and four other plaintiffs. The city and attorneys for Ms. Paultre-Bell agreed to delay the civil proceeding until the criminal trial in the case concludes.

Three of the officers were indicted in March, two on charges of manslaughter. Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora, and Marc Cooper all pleaded innocent in the November 25, 2006, slaying of Sean Bell as he left a bachelor party on the morning of his scheduled wedding.

Officers Paul Headley and Michael Carey were named in the civil suit although they escaped criminal charges.

An attorney for Mr. Carey, Stephen Worth, declined comment on the suit. Attorneys for the other officers did not immediately return phone calls.

A chief of the city’s special federal litigation division, Muriel Goode-Trufant, said the lawsuit “involves a very tragic incident. We have not seen the legal papers yet, but we will evaluate them thoroughly.”

“The most important thing for the victims is to get justice in the criminal prosecutions under way in Supreme Court in Queens,” an attorney for Ms. Paultre-Bell, Sanford Rubenstein, said. She legally took her fiancee’s name after his death.

Ms. Paultre-Bell’s friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, who were both wounded in the fusillade that killed Bell, joined her in filing the suit, which also included Ms. Paultre-Bell’s children Jada and Jordyn as plaintiffs.