Legal Opinion
Ostling v. City of Bainbridge Island
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided May 24, 2012No. 11-cv-5219 RBLPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED ORDER
RONALD B. LEIGHTON, District Judge.
On October 26, 2010, Bainbridge Island police officers responded to a rambling, quixotic 911-call placed by Douglas Ostling, a mentally-ill man living in an apartment attached to his parents’ home. Within minutes of the officers’ arrival, the interaction went tragically awry. The officers argue that Douglas menaced them with an axe; Plaintiffs argue that Douglas simply sought to close his apartment door. In either case, Officer Benkert shot Douglas in the leg, and Douglas bled to death on the floor of his apartment. Plaintiffs argue that the…
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