The family of a 26-year-old woman killed in a 2016 car chase with a Danbury police officer has sued the city and the former police officer involved.

The wrongful death lawsuit—filed Nov. 29 in U.S. district court in New Haven—claims that former officer Jamie Hodge, who had only been on the force for one year, should never have chased the stolen vehicle on the streets of Danbury. Passenger Tiffany Fitzgerald was killed when she was thrown from the 1997 Ford Explorer after it crashed during the chase.