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US officer who killed black man quits, gets $180,000

Friday, 09 October 2015 10:10 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 09 October 2015 10:09 AM ]

Resigned police officer Randall Kerrick will get $180,000 after killing a black college football player in 2013.

Local authorities in the US city of Charlotte, North Carolina have decided to pay some $180,000 to a police officer who fatally shot a black man to death and then resigned.

The police officer, named Randall Kerrick, was charged with fatally shooting Jonathan Ferrell, an African American college football player in 2013, according to city officials.

In August, Kerrick admitted that he fired at least 12 bullets at his victim.

Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter and had been suspended without pay since September 18, 2013. However, due to the jury’s inability to reach a verdict, the case ended in a mistrial.

On Friday, CNN reported that the city of Charlotte-Mecklenburg has reached an agreement with Kerrick to pay him thousands of dollars for the case.

The separate payments include close to $113,000 in back pay and unused vacation days, as well as a hefty $50,000 in attorney's fees and other Social Security and retirement contributions required by the law.

"This resolution allows CMPD and the Charlotte community to move forward in the healing process and continue our work together on open, candid and wide-ranging community dialogue about community and police relations," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Mayor Dan Clodfelter said in a statement.

A separate civil lawsuit by Ferrell’s family was also settled in May when the city paid his survivors $2,250,000.

Data by Washington Post show that a total of 601 people were shot dead by US police officers in the first eight months of 2015.

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