In 2013, Connor Zion died after being shot 18 times and suffering a skull fracture after a sheriff’s deputy stomped on his head. He was 21. Now, a $1.1-million settlement has been approved for his mother
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1-million settlement for the mother of a man who was shot 18 times and had his skull fractured after a sheriff’s deputy stomped on his head.in the death of Connor Zion, 21, and decided his family should receive $360,000 in damages. An additional $740,000 was tacked on for the “tremendous amount of litigation” after the lawsuit slogged through the legal system for four years, said Dan Stormer, the attorney for Zion’s mother.
Stormer had argued for a larger settlement and reached an agreement with the county on the $1.1-million settlement last week.Zion was killed in September 2013 during an encounter with two deputies in Laguna Niguel. According to official accounts, he had been chasing another deputy with a knife through a condominium complex when Deputy Michael Higgins arrived.
The deputy walked away briefly before turning back, breaking into a short run and then stomping on Zion’s head, fracturing his skull. He smashed his foot onto the man’s head twice more before retreating to help Lopez, according to dash-cam video and official accounts of the incident. In October 2015, U.S. District Judge James V. Selna granted the county’s motion for summary judgment in the case, and Zion’s mother, Kimberly Zion, appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The panel sent the case back to the lower court in 2017 after deciding a jury should determine whether the second round of shots and the head-stomping constituted excessive force.
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