BRONX, New York (WABC) -- New York City has agreed to pay $2 million to the family of a mentally ill woman who was shot and killed during a confrontation with an NYPD sergeant in the Bronx.
66-year-old Deborah Danner was shot twice in the chest in the bedroom of her Bronx apartment in 2016 by Sergeant Hugh Barry.
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Danner was armed with a bat.
Barry was later indicted and found not-guilty of murder but remains on modified duty while awaiting a departmental disciplinary hearing.
The city Law Department released the following statement: "The City has agreed to a settlement with the family of Deborah Danner, a person who struggled with mental illness, tragically killed in an encounter with police. We carefully considered the facts impacting the civil claims against the City, including the criminal indictment of a responding officer and the disciplinary charges pending against him. This agreement is a fair resolution of a tragic case and hopefully it brings some measure of relief to the family. The City is committed to preventing these tragedies from happening."
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Danner suffered from schizophrenia, and her sister called police to the apartment after the two had an argument.
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