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Civil rights lawsuit filed after police shooting death of armed security guard

 

NBC NEWS -- An armed guard working at a bar in a Chicago suburb was killed early Nov. 11 by an officer who was responding to a call of shots fired, authorities say.

According to the Cook County sheriff’s office, officers from Robbins, Illinois, and the nearby village of Midlothian were the first to respond shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday to a shooting at a bar in Robbins.

An officer from Midlothian fired at the security guard, who was later identified as 26-year-old Jemel Roberson, according to Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sophia Ansari. Roberson was later pronounced dead in a local hospital.

Roberson's family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Nov. 12 "for the wrongful death of Jemel," according to their attorneys.

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