CO - Family sues after Richard Ward, 32 shot and killed by police - 2/22/23

[Bishop Black]

He was picking up his brother at school. Now his family is suing in a fatal police encounter.

The family of an unarmed Colorado man who was fatally shot by police in a middle school pick-up line filed a federal civil rights wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday alleging excessive force.

Richard Ward, 32, was fatally shot by a Pueblo County sheriff's deputy on Feb. 22, 2022. He was waiting to pick up his younger brother from school when the deputy dragged him from the vehicle, a struggled ensued and the deputy shot Ward three times in the chest, according to the complaint.