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Father of Mansur Ball-Bey who was fatally shot in the back by two white St. Louis officers n Aug 19, 2015 has filed a wrongful death suit against the St. Louis Police Department.

Father of Mansur Ball-Bey, has filed a wrongful death suit against the officers who killed his son on Aug 19, 2015. The lawsuit was filed last Friday in a St. Louis federal court alleges that the two white St. Louis officers who fatally shot Ball-Bey overreacted according to Reuters.

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The lawsuit added that Ball-Bey was unarmed despite police statements back in 2015 that claimed he pointed a gun at the two officers. It went on to state he had not committed any crime and that the two officers who fired at him, Ronald Vaughn and Kyle Chandler, were not in danger.

Former St.Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson and the city were named as defendants in the lawsuit. Dotson is now retired from the St.Louis police department and is now the director of security for the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.

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An autopsy report showed Ball-Bey died from a single gunshot that entered his back and hit his heart. Two years ago, state prosecutors decided not to file charges against Chandler and Vaughn for the fatally shooting.

In the past the attorney for the officers, Brian Millikan, said the shooting was a “tragedy but was absolutely justified,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Mansur Ball-Bey who was 18 at the time of his death was employed at United Parcel Service (UPS), had no criminal record according to the lawsuit.

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