Chicago Man Left Paralyzed in Police Shooting Files Suit Against City, Officers

A Chicago man is suing the city and a half dozen police officers, accusing them of using excessive force after he was shot multiple times and left paralyzed from the waist down following a traffic stop last year.

Raymond Comer, 38, filed a seven-count civil suit in Cook County court late last week in which he claimed he was shot by a Chicago police officer multiple times as he sat inside a vehicle last August.

“We are very proud to represent Raymond Comer and our team will show that these officers had absolutely no justification for the deadly use of force used against him,” attorney Antonio Romanucci, with the law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, said in a statement.

Read more of Matt Masterson's reporting for WTTW.