A federal appeals court has, for a second time, struck down a lower court dismissal of a claim by a Benton mother who sued Benton police over the shooting death of her son at the hands of a police officer in October 2016.
A federal appeals court on Thursday heard oral arguments in the second appeal of a lawsuit filed in 2017 against Benton police by the parents of a suicidal 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed while complying with an officer s order to move a gun away from his head.