City to pay estate of man fatally shot

March 9, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

CLEVELAND (AP)

A city outside Cleveland has agreed to pay $1 million to the estate of an unarmed man fatally shot by a police officer after a vehicle chase in 2017.

Cleveland.com reports an attorney for the estate of Roy Evans Jr. confirmed Thursday that Strongsville has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in January 2018 against officer Jason Miller.

The chase began when a Strongsville officer tried to pull over the 37-year-old Evans’ van for having no headlights on.

The lawsuit said Miller shot Evans within a second of him opening the van’s driver side door.