From the newswire:

"Today [August 7, 2003] a Daley Center jury found the City of Chicago and recently retired Chicago Police Officer Kenny Lunsford guilty of the 1998 killing of Michael Russell, an unarmed 20-year-old Cabrini Green resident, in a hail of bullets shot at his back. The jury awarded a total of $1.5 million to Russell’s family, Mrs. Mildred Hamilton and her three surviving children, including $900,000 for "loss of society" and $600,000 for Russell’s "concious pain and suffering." Read More

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