A woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Chicago, Chicago police and a police officer after her son was killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n
Shawn Garrett, 25, was traveling east on Chicago\u2019s 69th Street on Jan. 10, 2011. According to the lawsuit, a police officer driving south toward the intersection failed to stop at a red light and hit his car. The lawsuit alleged the police officer was speeding while driving to a call and did not use police lights or a siren when he collided with Garrett\u2019s car in the fatal crash.<\/p>\n
Garrett\u2019s mother, Louise Bohannon, filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Nov. 23. She is seeking in excess of $50,000 in damages from each party. According to the claim, the officer \u201cwas driving the marked police car at an excess of the posted speed limit, and did not have his pursuit lights or sirens active.\u201d<\/p>\n