Estate of slain Pittsburgh officer planning suit

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The estate of one of three Pittsburgh police officers slain answering a disturbance call plans a lawsuit against Allegheny County and its 911 dispatch administrators.

The notice filed Monday is not a lawsuit, but rather a document that preserves the right of the estate of Eric Kelly to sue beyond the two-year statute of limitations. As such, the document does not contain allegation of what Kelly’s surviving family believes was done wrong. A county spokesman has declined to comment, and the attorney for the estate has not commented on the filing.

Twenty-four-year-old Richard Poplawski is awaiting trial in June on charges that he fatally shot Kelly and two other officers who answered a disturbance call from his mother. Some have questioned whether the officers were properly advised by dispatchers that Poplawski was armed.