
'He Threw a Knife at Me, So I Shot Him': 7th Circ. Rules Against Plaintiffs in Officer-Involved Shooting Case
"The statement most favorable to the Estate boils down to: 'He threw a knife at me, so I shot him.' The Estate maintains that this admits a temporal sequence of knife first, shot second. That is not clear to us; it could mean that the two events were simultaneous," Judge Frank H. Easterbrook wrote for the Seventh Circuit. "But let us take the Estate's perspective. Would that permit a reasonable jury to find that O'Neill shot Logan after O'Neill was out of danger? Not at all. Logan evidently was bent on harming the officer. Why would anyone in O'Neill's position believe that the knife was the only weapon at Logan's disposal?"
October 10, 2022 at 01:40 PM
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently upheld a district court's summary judgment order in favor of an Indiana police officer despite an unclear sequence of events regarding when the officer fired the fatal shots and when the suspect was no longer armed.
The Estate of Eric Jack Logan, deceased, appealed the order by U.S. District Judge Damon R. Leichty of the Northern District of Indiana in favor of South Bend Police Officer Ryan O'Neill. The estate acknowledged that Logan approached O'Neill with a hunting knife and threw it at the officer—striking him—but the estate claimed the officer's statements about the timing of the events and other evidence could lead a reasonable jury to doubt that deadly force was necessary, according to the court's opinion filed Oct. 3.
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