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Michigan: Family of Teenager Killed by Sergeant Files Lawsuit

HeadlineOct 16, 2015

In Michigan, the family of a 17-year-old teenager shot and killed by an Eaton County Sheriff’s sergeant after a February traffic stop has filed a federal lawsuit over his death. Sergeant Jonathan Frost stopped Deven Guilford after the teenager flashed his bright lights at the sergeant because he thought the sergeant’s brights were on. When Deven didn’t give Sergeant Frost his driver’s license, which he had left with his girlfriend, Frost pulled the teenager out of the car, ordered him to lie on his stomach, and fired his stun gun into the teenager as he handcuffed him. According to the Eaton County prosecutor, some form of altercation then ensued, in which Sergeant Frost shot Guilford seven times in a snow-filled ditch. Guilford was unarmed. His family filed a wrongful death suit against Sergeant Frost and the county on Wednesday — four months after Frost was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. Frost remains on active duty.

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