Legal Opinion
Lena Davenport v. Borough of Homestead
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 29, 2017No. 16-3892PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE' COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
On an early Sunday morning in January 2013, Lena Davenport was riding in the front passenger seat of a vehicle driven by her son Donald Burris, Jr. After running a red light and refusing to pull over, Burris led police officers on a nearly five-mile low speed pursuit into the City of Pittsburgh. As the pursuit entered an area with high pedestrian traffic, City of Pittsburgh Police Officers Louis Schweitzer, Stephen Matakovich, Calvin Kennedy, and Thomas Górecki each opened fire on Burris’s vehicle. Davenport was struck by one of the officers’…
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