The Associated Press reports via the CT Law Tribune as follows:
"A Connecticut city where police officers and dispatchers were accused of negligence and ethnic discrimination in their response to what became a murder-suicide in 2010 has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the victim's family for $3 million.
The estate of Turkish immigrant Shengyl Rasim sued the city of West Haven, two police officers and two dispatchers in 2011. The estate's lawyer, Joel Faxon, of the Faxon Law Group in New Haven, said a settlement recently was reached and is pending probate court approval. The city did not admit any wrongdoing, he said.
Rasim, 25, was shot to death by her husband, Selami Ozdemir, 42, in the early morning hours of Jan. 17, 2010, just hours after he posted bail and got out of jail. He had been arrested the previous evening for a second domestic violence complaint against him in four months. Ozdemir then killed himself. The couple's two young children were home but weren't harmed..."
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