A Michigan woman filed suit in Cook County Court today against the Village of South Holland and nine police officers, naming them as parties responsible for the 2007 death of her brother.
Jasmine Lovett claims that on June 10, 2007, South Holland police officers shot her brother Jeffrey LaShawn Ross and "with an utter indifference and conscious disregard for the decedant's safety, violated applicable policies for using deadly force."
The incident began early that morning, when just after 5 am, South Holland police responded to a call about someone damaging a vehicle. They found a woman in the car, who told police that her boyfriend had kicked the vehicle. Police spotted him fleeing the scene, "barricaded him in the lot of a Saturn Dealership... [where] without provocation or justification, one or more of the defendant police officers shot Mr. Ross in the left arm... [and] twice in the chest, near the heart."
Ross died of the gunshot wounds to his chest.
Then when the family made inquiries into the cause of Ross' death, the defendants "erroneously and fraudulently informed the siblings that the two gunshot wounds to Jeffery LaShawn Ross' chest were self-inflicted, in an attempt to conceal the true facts of the shooting and any causes of action against the Defendants."
As a result, his family was "mislead for nearly two years regarding the circumstances surrounding the shooting and his death," according to the complaint.
Lovett is asking for a judgment in excess of $50,000.
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