The wife of a Grammy-winning sound engineer who was killed by police in January has filed a lawsuit against the city of Nashville and a police officer
FILE - This 2018 driver's license photo shows Mark Capps. The wife of Grammy-winning sound engineer Capps, who was killed by police in January 2023, filed a lawsuit against the city of Nashville and Police Officer Ashley Coon on Monday, Oct. 30, claiming that Coon used “excessive, unreasonable force by shooting and killing Capps when he was not posing an active threat of imminent harm.
The city had no comment on the suit, said Metro Nashville Associate Director of Law-Litigation Allison Bussell. He then moved into the living room where he held his wife, her adult daughter and the daughter's boyfriend captive at gunpoint, threatening to kill them and even the dogs. Capps finally agreed to put the guns away around 5 a.m. Back to his bedroom, he continued to verbally abuse his wife, Tara Capps, for several hours until he fell asleep. Tara Capps and her daughter, McKenzie Acuff, went to their local police precinct for help.
“Nothing in Lancaster’s statements or tone indicated any fear that going to the Capps’s house to take him into custody would expose Lancaster to a likelihood of being injured or killed,” states the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in the Middle District of Tennessee.
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