TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A Phoenix suburb has reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a 14-year-old Latino boy who was fatally shot in the back by a police officer as the youth ran away while holding a non-lethal pellet gun.
The Tempe City Council on Thursday approved the settlement in the shooting of Antonio Arc by now-resigned Officer Joseph Jaen. The shooting occurred January 2019 in an alley after the officer responded to a 911 call about a possible vehicle burglary.
The officer, who resigned about four months after the shooting, was later granted an early disability retirement.
