Contra Costa County will pay $4.5 million to the family of a homeless man who was fatally shot in Danville one year ago by a police officer, civil rights attorney John Burris said Friday.

Tyrell Wilson, 33, was shot and killed March 11, 2021, by former Danville Police Officer Andrew Hall, who was convicted last year of assault with a firearm in his 2018 fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.