City to Pay Parents of Boy Killed in Raid
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The city of Modesto announced Wednesday that it would pay $2.55 million to settle a suit brought by the parents of a boy killed in a drug raid two years ago.
Alberto Sepulveda, 11, was accidentally shot and killed by a member of the Modesto Police Department’s SWAT team in September 2000.
Modesto’s city attorney, Michael Milich, said most of the sum would be covered by insurance.
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