Released on = May 24, 2007, 1:50 pm

Press Release Author = Lala C. Ballatan

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = The Chicago City Government recompenses $2 million to settle
the remaining claims of victims shot by police on the West Side in the 1998 Chicago
Bulls' championship win. The Council Finance Committee approved the proposal to pay
out the said compensation on Tuesday, May 23, 2007.

Press Release Body = The Chicago City Government recompenses $2 million to settle
the remaining claims of victims shot by police on the West Side in the 1998 Chicago
Bulls' championship win. The Council Finance Committee approved the proposal to pay
out the said compensation on Tuesday, May 23, 2007.

Los Angeles, California, May 23, 2007 - Reports filtered through from Chicago City
that by May 22, 2007, Wednesday, the measure has gone in front of the full council.
The Chicago City Government paid out a total of $4 million as settlement in the
civil lawsuits filed by victims of the shooting.

Last year, 2006, the city has settled payment with Francis Bell, handing out $1.75
million for damages. Bell lost the vision of his left eye in the aftermath of the
shooting. Earlier on, Lataya Edwards has been settled for her claim of $300,000.

An Alderman, Ald. Joe Moore (49th) felt compelled to comment regarding the payments.
According to Moore, he supposed that either they did not do a satisfactory job of
checking out the Police officer's wrongdoing or that the city is just handing over
money to the people.

Though it has been almost 10 years, it can be remembered that the fateful incidents
happened on June 14, 1998. Amidst the aftermath exhilaration when the Chicago Bulls
won their sixth championship game of the 1990s over the Utah Jazz, police officers
opened fire on a car that night.

Accounts of witnesses gave out that the police officers were supposedly watching for
post game problems when a car leaped the sidewalk and raced toward them at the
length of Roosevelt Road near Pulaski Road.

The spray of bullets hit six of the car passengers. Three of the victims were riding
on the car\'s hood while two were sitting in the open trunk.

Last year, Bell's civil lawsuit declared a deadlock by the jury. Bell's attorney has
asked for $10 million in damages.

The approved of $1.96 million settlement, last Tuesday will be split among five
persons who have sustained injuries too. These persons are, a man who sustained four
wounds and another man who claimed of being grazed by a bullet but failed to seek
medical attention.

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