Red Lake sisters to get $500,000

The city of Redondo Beach, Calif., is paying $500,000 to the Minnesota sisters of a motorist who was killed after a high-speed chase when police fired a shotgun blast into his chest instead of a beanbag.

Nathan Lee Rossbach, 40, died Oct. 6, 2002, near Los Angeles International Airport. His sisters filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city a year later, alleging police acted with negligence and used unjustified force.

Police called it a tragic mistake.

In the settlement approved Tuesday by the City Council, Rossbach's sisters, Trudy Cook and Mamie Rossbach of the Red Lake (Minn.) Indian Reservation will divide the $500,000.