Clark County announced Wednesday it has agreed to pay the family of Kevin Peterson Jr., a 21-year-old man who was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies during a drug sting in October 2020, $1.25 million to settle a federal wrongful death lawsuit.
Three deputies fatally shot Peterson on Oct. 29, 2020, as he ran, armed with a handgun, from the scene of a planned sale of 50 Xanax pills. The shooting was in the parking lot of a shuttered U.S. Bank branch, next to the Hazel Dell Quality Inn, where the drug sale was set to take place.
