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GARY — The mother of Ke-Monte Cobbs — a teenage robbery suspect killed by a Gary police officer more than two years ago — is suing city officials and the officer who shot her son, claiming excessive force.

Tasheena Brooks filed the wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court, claiming Gary police Officer Justin Hedrick fired a fatal shot into the top of her 15-year-old son’s head as he lay on the ground the night of Aug. 1, 2017.

“Lake County Coroner reported that Cobbs’ cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the top of the head,” the suit claims.

Contrary to the suit, detectives have said publicly the boy fled from a vehicle linked to an earlier violent armed robbery in Munster and pointed a weapon at officers, prompting the fatal gunfire by police.

Ke-Monte Cobbs was one of five people stopped along Hanley Street near 19th Place by Gary police that night on suspicion they were involved an earlier holdup at a Verizon store in Munster, records show.

The lawsuit claims Hedrick and his K-9 partner chased Cobbs on foot and followed him behind a residential building on the west side of 5055 W. 19th Place in Gary.