Columbia settles lawsuit with family of man killed by police in 2021
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The family of a man who was killed by Columbia police in 2021 has settled its lawsuit with the city.
Attorneys for Quillian Jacobs's family filed stipulations on July 3 that it would dismiss the city from its federal lawsuit. A settlement document obtained by ABC 17 News through an open records request shows the city will pay the Jacobs family $20,000 as part of the deal.
The family sued two years after officers shot and killed Jacobs early in the morning on Nov. 14, 2021, in an alleyway off of Fifth Street. Police said Jacobs was part of a crowd congregating outside of Vibez Lounge that morning. He and Todd Nesbitt, Jr. were accused of shooting at each other and into the crowd of people there. Police chased Jacobs into a nearby alley.
Video released by CPD showed officers Turner Schuster and Gardner Pottorff firing when Jacobs fell and pointed his gun toward officers.
A special prosecutor cleared the two officers of criminal charges in 2022. Nesbitt pleaded guilty to resisting arrest in 2022 in exchange for prosecutors dropping the assault charge against him.
The two officers were dropped from the Jacobs family lawsuit in June. Pottorff resigned from CPD following an incident in May 2023 where he punched a man on the ground during an arrest outside of Harpo's. He and the other officer involved in that, Keenen Shouse, still face a federal lawsuit from the man arrested. Both of those officers were hired as Callaway County deputies.
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