. . CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER SUICIDE : POLICE BRUTALITY : UNITED STATES: CITIES: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh Man's Kin Settles Police Shooting Suit . . Pittsburgh Man's Kin Settles Police Shooting Suit 3:08 PM EDT October 14, 2014 WTAE.comhttp://www.wtae.com/news/nicholas-haniotakis- police-shooting-lawsuit-settlement/29118664
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/qyehgvh . .PITTSBURGH A woman has tentatively settled her lawsuit claiming her son was wrongly killed by a state trooper who previously was the subject of a $12.5 million settlement for fatally shooting an unarmed 12-year-old boy in the back.
.The federal lawsuit filed by Diane Zion more than five years ago contends Trooper Samuel Nassan III and a Pittsburgh officer, Sgt. Terrence Donnelly, wrongly fired at Nicholas Haniotakis in the early morning hours of March 15, 2009, as the city's bars were emptying following St. Patrick's festivities.
.The officers claimed they fired only after a drunken, drugged Haniotakis - who had an extensive criminal record that included other instances of escaping from or attacking police - tried to hit officers with his vehicle during a brief chase. The lawsuit was filed before toxicology tests from an autopsy revealed Haniotakis was drunk and had Xanax, morphine and cocaine metabolites in his system.
. snip .Although both officers fired a total of four shots at Haniotakis, Nassan was the focus of the litigation. That was partly driven by the autopsy which showed Nassan fired the fatal shot and because Fieger referenced the earlier multimillion-dollar settlement involving Nassan in the Haniotakis lawsuit.
.Nassan's former attorney, Jerry McDevitt, had argued Fieger - who is perhaps best known for representing assisted suicide Dr. Jack Kevorkian - was trying to "demonize" Nassan by referring to the earlier settlement.
.Fieger was also the attorney in the previous lawsuit, in which a federal court jury in March 2008 determined Nassan wrongly killed 12-year-old Michael Ellerbe, of Uniontown, on Christmas Eve 2002.
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