Woman wounded during Waukegan police shooting sues city, officers involved

The woman who was shot and whose boyfriend was fatally wounded allegedly by police in Waukegan, Ill., earlier this month is suing the city, the recently-fired Chicago-area officer who opened fire on them and the officer who questioned them minutes earlier, recently filed court papers show.

Tafara Williams, 20, is suing ex-Waukegan police officer Dante Salinas, who fired the shots the night of Oct. 20, and Officer James Keating, who stopped the couple while they were sitting in a car earlier that night, according to the lawsuit, which was filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

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