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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA man who was badly injured last year after being shot by a South Bend police officer claims in a lawsuit he was the victim of excessive force.
The lawsuit filed in St. Joseph County says 28-year-old Terrance Eppenger suffered an unspecified permanent disability from the March 2018 shooting by officer Samuel Chaput.
South Bend also faces a lawsuit over the June shooting death of a black man by a white officer that has drawn scrutiny to the city’s mayor, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
The South Bend Tribune reports police say Eppenger began hitting the officer, who responded when Eppenger refused to leave a duplex. Police say they fell to the ground and Chaput fired one shot.
Eppenger faces felony battery and resisting arrest charges.
City officials declined to comment. The St. Joseph County prosecutor ruled last year shortly after the shooting that Chaput was justified in opening fire.
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