The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court in September 2020, claimed the 53-year-old barbecue chef committed no crime before he was killed on June 1, 2020.

Katie Crews could have been sentenced to a year behind bars for shooting pepper balls at McAtee's niece, Machelle McAtee, on June 1, 2020, striking her once in the shoulder, as the woman was standing on private property and not a threat to officers.

While attorneys for McAtee’s family say Katie Crews initiated the sequence of events leading to David McAtee’s death, federal prosecutors asked for a sentence of no incarnation arguing, in part, Crews was fairly new on the force and “clearly could not have foreseen the tragic outcome of her actions in this case.”

Former officer Katie Crews was indicted on civil rights charges Thursday in U.S. district court for firing a pepperball at a woman