- Police Brutality Watch

Prince George's County has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the families of three women killed when a driver being pursued by county police crashed into their vehicle in 2002. The out-of-court settlement ended a civil suit brought in D.C. Superior Court by their survivors. The money will be shared by eight children of the three dead women. Michelle Rene Brown, 27, Lashawn Dennise Willis, 30, and Tabitha White, 19, were killed about 5:40 a.m. June 30, 2002, when their Nissan Maxima was broadsided by a 1994 Chevrolet Caprice at 58th Street and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE. The driver of the Caprice was being pursued into the District by Prince George's police because the car matched the description of one used in a shooting that morning in Fairmount Heights. The chase lasted four blocks before the Caprice struck the Maxima, police said. The driver of the Caprice, whose face had been obscured by the car's tinted windows, ran off and never has been identified. [more] and [more