$7.2M settlement in Sean Bell wrongful-death case
Photo credit: GREGORY P. MANGO | Sean Bell Bell was killed outside Kalua Cabaret in Queens on Nov. 25, 2006. Pictured in this photo is his fiancée, Nicole Paultre.
New York City agreed Tuesday to pay $3.25 million to settle a wrongful-death suit brought by the family of Sean Bell, the unarmed man who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a Queens strip club the night before his wedding in a notorious 2006 shooting incident.
Joseph Guzman, 34, and Trent Benefield, 26, two passengers in Bell's car who attended his bachelor party and were wounded...
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