UPDATE: Wrongful Death Lawsuit to be Filed in Gil Collar's Death

It's a done deal...there won't be any criminal charges and the state is protected by the doctrine of Sovereign or Crown Immunity. The moral of the story...don't bring you wang to a gun fight!

Who didn't see this coming? Ahh!! It's all about the greenbacks! So if I get stoned and do drugs, undress myself and run around naked on a college campus and ignore any and all demands to stand down and I get killed then my actions will result in a ambulane chasing lawyer filing lawsuits against the very people that tried to stop my insane and eratic behavior? Did I get that right? Speaking hypothetically.. so my stupid mistakes are the reason that everyone else should and have to dig into their wallets and pay my family for my errors in judgement? If their is a judge and jury with an ounce of brains they'd laugh this out of a courtroom.

@John S ... "What If: The officer had not fired, and Mr Collar overpowered him and took his weapon?" ... That scenario CONTRADICTS the video evidence though... Gil Collar never moved within 3 feet of Trevis Austin, so an error in judgement was made by the officer that cost Gil Collar his life. THAT is the basis of the lawsuit, I suspect.

The bad news is that a notorious crooked lawyer will make money off this.

What If: The officer had not fired, and Mr Collar overpowered him and took his weapon??? We can all guess what might have happened under differing circumstances. But to what gain? The good news is that Mr Collar did not get his hands on the gun and kill 154 people.

@Jay-of course it is possible that a different officer could have reacted differently. To say that Gil Collar's fate was sealed because the officer had his weapon drawn is overstating the situation. You are completely taking any responsibility for the student's behavior away by saying that. It's like you are saying that the officer would have shot him regardless of how he acted and that is presumption on your part. The officer did repeatedly tried to talk him down and he continued to be aggressive. It is very much a shame that the officer didn't continue on that course for just a short period longer but he didn't. Of course the parents are going to file a wrongful death suit. That is very much expected. This is a very sad story beginning with this young student taking drugs to his behavior from the dorms to the police building to the officer shooting him. Making a statement that students do experiment with drugs should not be used as an excuse for poor behavior, violent behavior or bad choices in general. Just because students do it shouldn't make it right or acceptable.

Isn't it just possible that a more rational policeman would have resorted to using deadly force as a LAST (not first) resort? ... I mean, they do still teach "to protect and to serve" in the law enforcement academies don't they? ... The video of the incident clearly shows ‘Officer’ Trevis Austin exiting the building with his service weapon ALREADY DRAWN… Gil Collar’s fate was sealed from that point forward... Generations of college students and college-aged youngsters have experimented with recreational drugs for about 5 decades now, ever since the 60s when mandatory military service in debacles like the war in Vietnam caused so many to question the sanity of it all. That doesn’t make it right, but IT IS the reality… Any policeman worth serving the citizenry SHOULD BE aware of that FACT... Killing an unarmed college student, OBVIOUSLY under the influence of drugs, when non-lethal force is available is absolutely INEXCUSABLE, a lapse of judgment that demonstrates this 'officer' should never have been on a police force to begin with... To add insult to the parents of the victim injury, the entire matter is being sanitized by the politically-correct media because the real crime committed was by a black police officer and the victim is white... A VERY enlightening article, shedding new light on the lack of judgment from 'Officer' Trevis Austin can be found at DailyMail... Navigate to ... DailyMail dot co dot uk ... and search on site for the article entitled ... Emotional tribute for Alabama student who had taken LSD and was shot dead as he chased campus police officer ... MANY pics there you won't see in the politically-correct US main-stream-media.