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Family of Scout Schultz Reaches $1 Million Settlement

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More than four years after Scout Schultz was shot and killed by a Georgia Tech campus police officer, Georgia officials have agreed to pay $1 million to Schultz’s family, according to the AJC.

On September 16, 2017, officer Tyler Beck fatally shot the nonbinary and intersex President of Georgia Tech’s Pride Alliance.

Schultz was having a mental health breakdown when they called 911, and when officers arrived, Schultz walked towards them carrying an object despite orders to not move.

Beck had not received crisis intervention training and shot Schultz. The family sued in September 2019, stating that their death was “the result of Georgia Tech’s and the State of Georgia’s failure over time to properly train their personnel to act in such a way

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