The Centre County district attorney cleared the officers of criminal wrongdoing. It was the first fatal shooting in the police department’s history.
Osaze Osagie was shot to death by State College police in 2019. STATE COLLEGE — Attorneys for the family of a State College man fatally shot three years ago by a borough police officer expressed a desire Sunday to resolve, but said the borough’s insurance company has been unwilling to engage in settlement discussions.
“In the legal part of this tragedy, we see that there are four parties: There’s the family, there’s the community, there’s the Borough Council leadership and then there’s an insurance company,” Shubin said. “Three of those stakeholders are in town, they’re part of our community and one is a faceless bureaucracy that is an interloper and from out of town.
Attorney David MacMain represents the borough and the three police officers named in the lawsuit. He pushed back in an email Monday. Osagie, a Black man with chronic mental illnesses, was fatally shot by former borough police officer M. Jordan Pieniazek, who is white. Three officers said Osagie, 29, charged at them with a knife in a narrow hallway., saying they were in a “life-or-death” situation. It was the first fatal shooting in the police department’s history.
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