The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is set to pay out $450,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a 2010 deputy shooting of a teen with Down syndrome at a Riviera Beach intersection.
The Palm Beach Post reported Tuesday that the Sheriff’s Office will pay the money to the guardianship of Jeremy Hutton.
Hutton, who suffers from Down syndrome, was 17 years old in 2010 when the deputy shot him.
It’s one of two recent lawsuit settlements involving the agency. The Sheriff’s Office also will pay $562,500 to the family of Matthew Pollow. Records show a deputy fatally shot Pollow in April 2014. The Sheriff’s Office and Pollow’s family had offered varying accounts of what happened the night of the shooting.
The Sheriff’s Office still faces several lawsuits over shootings.
