Walsh v. Oehlert

McMILLIAN, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant Rudolph Oehlert, a St. Louis Police Officer, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, in the amount of $1000.00 awarded by a jury to plaintiffs, in an action for the wrongful death (shooting) of their son, Timothy Walsh, a sixteen year old juvenile.

Originally, plaintiffs sued eight Metropolitan Police Officers; but the cause was submitted to the jury only against defendant and Officer Phillip Gaffney. Plaintiffs submitted their case against Officer Gaffney on the theory that he used unreasonable force against their son, but…