Baltimore County To Pay Family $6.5M After Deadly Police Shooting

Towson MD

12 October, 2021

4:27 PM

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TOWSON, MD (WJZ) — Baltimore County has agreed to a $6.5 million settlement with the family of Eric Sopp, the man who was fatally shot by a police officer in November 2019 during a mental health crisis, the law firm Brown, Goldstein & Levy announced. In a statement released Tuesday by the law firm, Sopp's mother, Catherine, said she hopes the county reevaluates crisis intervention training for police officers. Read more from CBS Baltimore.