Family of Police Victim To Get $2M From City
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The city has agreed to pay $2 million to the family of an unarmed teenager shot by a police officer on a Brooklyn rooftop in 2004.
The family of the victim, 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury Jr., had originally asked for $600 million in their claim.
The police officer, Richard Neri, shot Stansbury as the boy opened the door onto the roof of his Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project. The officer has since been permanently reassigned to unarmed desk duty.
“The death of Timothy Stansbury Jr. was a tragedy, and we offer our condolences to his family,” a city lawyer, Ken Sasmor, said. “We believe the settlement is in the best interests of all parties, and hope it will provide some small measure of comfort.”
