Nation IN BRIEF : INDIANA : Jury Rules Death in Police Car No Suicide
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Indianapolis police said 16-year-old auto theft suspect Michael Taylor Jr. somehow shot himself to death while handcuffed behind his back in a squad car. An all-white jury didn’t buy it, ordering the city to pay $4.3 million to the boy’s mother. Black activists hailed the decision as proof that two white officers had murdered the black high school student. Police maintain that the teenager shot himself with a gun hidden in his high-top sneakers. City officials said they would appeal.
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