CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two North Royalton police officers involved in the fatal 2016 shooting of a mentally ill man created a dangerous situation by rushing into the house against his sister's request, a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the man's family claims.

Jun Wang's sister asked officers Kip MacDonald and Jason Kimmel to let her go into the house and speak to her brother before police detained him took him to a hospital for mental health treatment, the lawsuit says.

But MacDonald and Kimmel pushed past the sister, Julia Rielinger, when she opened the door, ignored police training on how to deal with people in the throes of mental illness and set off a chain of events that ended with an officer stabbed and Wang shot dead, the lawsuit says.

"Defendants needlessly stormed into Jun's home -- an individual they knew to suffer from mental illness -- and after needlessly frightening and cornering Jun in his bedroom, shot and killed Jun in response to a situation Defendants had created," the lawsuit says.

North Royalton police never released the names of the officers involved. The lawsuit names MacDonald and Kimmel, and identifies MacDonald as the shooter.

The lawsuit also says police illegally detained Rielinger and her friend, Jon Liptak, for several hours after the shooting and did not release them until after Wang was pronounced dead.

The lawsuit, filed last month on behalf of Rielinger, Liptak and Wang's estate, names MacDonald, Kimmel, as well as two supervisors, then-police Chief John Elekand the city of North Royalton. It seeks at least $25,000 in damages.

North Royalton police spokesman, Detective David Loeding, declined to comment on the lawsuit Wednesday.

Wang, who was born in China, lived in Rielinger's condominium in the weeks before the shooting. He mainly spoke Mandarin and had trouble communicating in English, the lawsuit says.

Wang stopped taking medication to treat his schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and Reilinger was forced to move out of her home, the lawsuit says.

Reilinger got a warrant in probate court to have Wang committed to St. Vincent Charity Hospital for treatment. She went to the North Royalton police department on Oct. 26, 2016 and asked for help taking Wang to the hospital, but police told her to come back during the daytime, the lawsuit claims.

She came back two days later, and MacDonald and Kimmel followed her to her home, the lawsuit says.

Rielinger also asked for an ambulance, but the officers did not summon one, according to the lawsuit.

Rielinger told police that her brother could potentially act out and had access to kitchen knives in the home, the lawsuit said. She asked for a chance to go inside and talk to him first. She feared the police would scare him.

MacDonald and Kimmel rushed in through the door in front of Rielinger and Liptak, the lawsuit says.

Wang retreated upstairs to his bedroom, grabbed a knife and struggled with the officers who chased after him.

North Royalton police said Wang stabbed Kimmel in the face and led, and MacDonald shot him.

Officers called for an ambulance, which took Wang to University Hospitals Parma Medical Center. He was pronounced dead about an hour after the shooting.

Police then detained Rielinger, and took her car keys and her cellphone, the lawsuit says. They also detained Liptak. Officers drove them back to the police station and held them for "several hours" before they let them leave, the lawsuit says.

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