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Michigan Parents Sue Police Over Son’s Shooting Death

(AP) — The Michigan parents of a man shot and killed by Hawaiʻi police in June have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, saying officers didn’t need to shoot him 13 times. At the time, police said Daniel Buckingham cut an officer with a large knife when officers responded to an alarm at a Big Island home that was supposed to be empty. Police said he was hiding in a bedroom and swung a knife at an officer, hitting him in the forearm. Two of the other responding officers fired their guns, killing Buckingham. The lawsuit says officers didn’t announce themselves.

 

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