CIVIL TRIAL DATE SET FOR KILLING OF MICHAEL NIDA, NEW LAWYER JOINS LEGAL TEAM
By Ben Baeder
DOWNEY – A federal judge has set a trial date for what will likely be a multi-million-dollar civil case filed by the family of a man shot to death by Downey Police.
The case of Michael Nida of South Gate will be heard in a Los Angeles federal courtroom May 7.
Nida, a father of four, was unarmed in October when he was shot in the back by a Downey Police officer armed with an MP-5 submachine gun.
On the night of the shooting, police were responding to a report of an armed ATM robbery near Imperial Highway and Paramount Boulevard. Police spotted Nida crossing Imperial, and they stopped him and had him sit on a curb, according to family members. Nida got up and left, jumped a nearby fence by the drugstore on the southeast corner, and called his wife, who was waiting at the nearby ARCO station, according to accounts from those familiar with the investigation.
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