Sova v. City of Mt. Pleasant

OPINION

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Two Mt. Pleasant police officers shot and killed Thomas Sova standing in the doorway of his parents’ kitchen within fifteen minutes of arriving on the scene of his attempted suicide. Thomas’s parents sued the city, the police department, the police chief, and the three officers who were immediately responsible, asserting constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and supplemental claims under Michigan tort law and the Michigan Constitution. After extensive discovery, the District Court entered summary judgment in favor of all the defendants after ruling that…