City reaches $2 million settlement in undercover cop fatally shooting unarmed Brooklyn man
JOHN MARZULLI
The city is forking over $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit over the controversial fatal shooting of an unarmed Brooklyn man by an undercover NYPD narcotics detective five years ago, the Daily News has learned.
Shem Walker, 49, an Army veteran, was gunned down after he tried to eject the detective from loitering on the stoop of the victim's elderly mother's apartment building in Fort Greene — apparently unaware that the Haitian-born narc was observing a buy-and-bust operation nearby.
Identified in court papers only as Undercover C-94, the detective fired three times on July 11, 2009, after Walker punched him in the face and both men tumbled to the pavement. No grand jury was convened by former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes or his recent successor Kenneth Thompson.
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