The mother of a 32-year-old Navy veteran who was killed by two Los Angeles police officers should receive $23.8 million in compensation, a federal jury said.
The mother of a 32-year-old Navy veteran who was fatally shot by two Los Angeles police officers while holding a metal bar that was mistaken for a machete should receive $23.8 million in compensation, a federal jury concluded, delivering one of the largest payouts ever awarded in a case involving an LAPD shooting.
Police went to Murillo’s Canoga Park home about 7:15 p.m. two days before Christmas in response to a report that he was involved in a physical altercation with his sister and had put her fiance in a headlock. At the scene on Strathern Street, just west of Desoto Avenue, police found a hammer in Murillo’s pocket and the pull bar beside his body.
At least one of the shots was fired as Murillo was going to the ground, Galipo showed jurors at the trial, using video of the incident and a trajectory analysis of the bullets. Some of the officers’ stray rounds hit a nearby garage, a truck and a fence. In concluding that the officers acted lawfully in shooting, a deputy district attorney in 2018 found that Murillo did run toward Sigman but then veered course — a slight change of direction in a rapidly evolving incident that still justified the shooting as self-defense, since it was reasonable to believe Murillo had a machete given the other officer’s radio call and because the pull bar would have caused severe injury.
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