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Federal suit filed against LR police

By C.S. Murphy

A Little Rock police detective filed a federal lawsuit Monday against his own department and the police chief, saying his father’s December 2010 shooting death was “tragic and totally avoidable.” Two off-duty police officers had no reason to enter Eugene Ellison’s apartment the night officer Donna Lesher shot the 67-year-old man in the chest, said Michael J. Laux, a lawyer hired by Little Rock detective Troy Ellison and his family, ...

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  • Headline: Federal suit filed against LR police
  • Publication: Front Section, Pages 1 on 10/18/2011
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