Barber County officials have agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of an unarmed Sun City man killed with a homemade beanbag round fired by the undersheriff at close range in 2017. The settlement, reached in a federal civil rights case filed by the widow of Steven P. Myers, is thought to be the largest to date in any officer-involved shooting death in Kansas, an attorney for the family said following the expiration of a gag order Sunday.
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