Two and a half years after a Hummelstown police officer shot and killed a man who fled a traffic stop, a settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit filed by the shooting victim's family.

Details of the deal that will end the U.S. Middle District Court fight over Officer Lisa Mearkle's shooting of David Kassick weren't immediately available.

Hummeltown's lawyer, Fred Buck, said Wednesday that he can't yet comment on the settlement because it isn't completely finished.

"I can confirm that we do have a settlement," Buck said. "But the finalization of the paperwork and the details are still pending."

In an order issued this week, Judge John E. Jones III dismissed the case, although he gave the sides 60 days to reinstate it if the deal isn't consummated.

Like Buck, the attorneys for Kassick's family, John M. Solt and Christopher B. Slusser, said they can't comment on the accord until it is made final.

Mearkle's attorney, David MacMain, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Kassick's kin, including his sister, Diane Fetters and brother Dale Kassick, contended in the suit that Mearkle shot and killed 59-year-old David Kassick in February 2015 without justification and in violation of his civil rights. The family claimed Hummelstown officials didn't properly train and supervise Mearkle.

Dauphin County prosecutors charged Mearkle with third-degree murder for the shooting, which was filmed by the video camera on the officer's Taser. A county jury acquitted Mearkle of the murder count after a trial in November 2015.

Investigators said the shooting occurred after Mearkle tried to stop Kassick's car for an expired inspection sticker. She shot Kassick twice in the back as he was lying on the snow-covered backyard of his sister's house in South Hanover Township.

Mearkle contended she shot Kassick because she feared for her safety when he refused her repeated commands to show his hands after being Tasered. She claimed the decision to file the criminal charges against her was politically motivated.

Mearkle has since resigned from the Hummelstown force after accepting a $120,000 severance package.

For a while, it seemed a second trial - a civil one - over the police-involved shooting was inevitable. In March, Jones refused to dismiss the Fetters-Kassick suit, saying the dispute should be left for a jury to decide.

The issues a jury should hear included whether David Kassick did indeed try to comply with Mearkle's commands and whether the orders issued by the officer were panicked and confusing, the judge said.

The federal trial was delayed several times. When the settlement it was struck was scheduled for December.