Settlements Finalized With Parents of Police Shooting Victim

[Updated June 16, 2014 | 4:15 p.m.]  Pasadena City Attorney / City Prosecutor Michele Beal Bagneris announced today that attorneys for the City of Pasadena, Anya Slaughter and  Kenneth McDade have finalized mutual settlements in the lawsuits by Slaughter and McDade regarding the March 2012 fatal shooting of their son, Kendrec McDade, by Pasadena police officers who were responding to a 911 armed robbery call.

The settlements were finalized today, June 16, with no finding of fault or liability by the City, the Pasadena Police Department and its officers.

The settlements are a final resolution to the lawsuits in which settlements were reached in principle about a week ago, but the terms could not be made public until the agreements were fully finalized and executed, including payments to both parents.

The agreements included monetary settlements for the parents, who, in turn, agreed to dismiss their lawsuits against the City and Pasadena police officers. Slaughter has received $850,000 and Kenneth McDade has received $187,500. All parties agreed to absorb their own legal fees.

Today Attornery Caree Harper released a statement attributed to her client, Kenneth McDade.

“Although I am satisfied with the settlement, there is no amount, large or small, that will bring Kendrec back to his mother, who he lived with, or back to me who he was running to the night he was hunted down by cowards with badges,” the statement reads. ” This was never about money to me; I still want the officers responsible for my son’s death to go to jail.”

Kendrec McDade was shot in March 2012 by Pasadena police officers Mathew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen as they responded to a 9-1-1 report of an armed robbery.

The subsequent investigation would reveal that McDade was not armed and that the 9-1-1 call was in fact an intentionally false report.

The two police officers were cleared of legal wrongdoing by both an internal review and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Additional information about the settlements can be found in the settlement agreements themselves. For a copy of the full settlement agreement with Kendrec McDade’s mother, Anya Slaughter, please click here.  For a copy of the full settlement agreement with Kendrec McDade’s father, Kenneth McDade, please click here.