Connecticut woman shot by officer gets $1.1M settlement

Connecticut woman shot by Hamden cop awarded $1.1M in settlement

A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million. Stephanie Washington was struck four times when Hamden officer Devin Eaton fired 13 bullets at the stopped car in New Haven on April 16, 2019, according to her lawsuit and a prosecutor's investigation that found the shooting unjustified. She suffered …

Woman shot by Hamden officer gets $1.1M settlement

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million. Stephanie Washington was struck four times when Hamden officer Devin Eaton fired 13 bullets at the stopped car in New Haven on April 16, 2019, according to her lawsuit and a prosecutor's investigation that found the shooting unjus…

Connecticut woman shot by officer gets $1.1M settlement

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million. Stephanie Washington’s lawsuit says she was struck four times when Hamden officer Devin Eaton fired 13 bullets at the stopped car in New Haven in April 2019. She says she suffered spine and hip-area fractures and other injures. Th…

Connecticut woman shot by officer gets $1.1M settlement

A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over

Connecticut woman shot by officer gets $1.1M settlement

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million. Stephanie Washington was struck four times when Hamden officer Devin Eaton fired 13 bullets at the stopped car in New Haven on April 16, 2019, according to her lawsuit and a prosecutor’s investigation that found the shooting unjus…

Connecticut woman shot by officer gets $1.1M settlement

FILE - Hamden police officer Devin Eaton, left, is arraigned in Superior Court in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 28, 2019. A Connecticut woman, Stephanie Washington, who was seriously injured when Eaton opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed in April 2019, has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million. (Arnold Gold/New Haven Register via AP, Pool, File)(Arnold Gold / Associated Press) Connecticut woman shot …