$2M Settlement To Victim’s Family In Wrongful Death Suit Involving Police

A U.S. federal district judge has given final approval on the $2 million settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by the estate of Autumn Steele, who was fatally shot by a Burlington police officer in 2015. Approval of the settlement by U.S. District Judge James Gritzner was listed Tuesday on the federal court’s website for the Southern District of Iowa. According to documents on the website, the attorneys in the case “hereby stipulate to the dismissal of all causes and actions” filed by the Steele estate against the city of Burlington and police officer Jesse Hill “because a settlement has been reached in this matter.”