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Police shooting costs Buffalo $4.5 million

On Tuesday, Buffalo’s Common Council authorized one of the largest lawsuit settlements in the city’s history.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — On Tuesday, Buffalo’s Common Council authorized one of the largest lawsuit settlements in the city’s history: $4.5 million to Wilson Morales, who was shot by Buffalo police officers in the early morning of June 24, 2012, after a car chase on the city’s East Side.

The bullet that struck Morales, then a 17-year-old student at WNY Maritime Charter School, instantly paralyzed him from the chest down.

“It’s been hard,” Morales told Investigative Post in the offices of Dolce Panepinto, the law firm that handled the lawsuit, after the Council approved the settlement. For more on this story, please visit the Investigative Post website.

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