A North Carolina sheriff’s office announced a $3 million settlement on Monday in a lawsuit filed by the family of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies.
Highlights
- Andrew Brown Jr.
- was killed on April 21 of last year by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies while they were serving drug-related warrants at his Elizabeth City home.
- The family had filed a $30 million civil rights lawsuit in 2021, saying the man died because officers showed “intentional and reckless disregard of his life” The settlement includes a special $1 million appropriation to go along with $2 million from the county’s insurance policy.
- Brown’s children will share in the proceeds of the settlement as heirs of his estate, the sheriff’s office said.
- The settlement was reached over several weeks last month in the case overseen by a federal magistrate in Raleigh.