Federal judge dismisses city from Darrius Stewart civil suit
Darrius Stewart's mother, Mary Stewart, speaks to protesters outside the Criminal Justice Center Nov. 11, 2015, about her son's fatal shooting by Memphis Police officer Connor Schilling. (Daily Memphian file)
Court documents show the city of Memphis has been removed as a defendant from a civil suit filed by the mother of 19-year-old Darrius Stewart, who was killed in an officer-involved shooting in 2015. But the police officer who killed Stewart remains a defendant in the suit.
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