Cop Still on Active Duty  - Weak Prosecutors Never Sought Criminal Charges 
The final chapter in the Timothy Stansbury Jr. case ended Wednesday when the city agreed to pay his family $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed after the unarmed Brooklyn teen was shot and killed by a cop patrolling a housing project, those involved in the case said.

 While the settlement gave Stansbury's family a sense of closure, "there's a certain kind of emptiness there," said a friend who asked not to be named. "It's like they're mourning all over again, because nothing is going to bring him back."

 Stansbury, 19, and never in trouble with the law, was fatally shot by Officer Richard Neri in a rooftop stairwell inside the Louis Armstrong Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on Jan. 24, 2004.

 Stansbury, who lived in the Armstrong Houses, and two friends were heading to a party and planned to get there by crossing from the roof of one building to another.

 Neri, patrolling the roof with his partner, shot Stansbury as the cops were opening the rooftop door to get into the building.

 The next day, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said "there appears to be no justification" for the shooting, a characterization that infuriated the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, whose delegates took a symbolic "no confidence" vote and demanded Kelly's ouster.