William Cass v. City of Dayton

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

After a “buy-bust” operation took an unexpected turn, Detective David House of the Dayton City Police Department shot and killed Derrick Jordan. Jordan, not the intended target of the bullet, sat in the front passenger seat of a vehicle that, moments before the shot was fired, had been driven into two officers in an attempt to escape. Jordan’s estate brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, alleging that House used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment and that the City failed to train and supervise its employees adequately. Jordan’s estate…