The city is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a family says an off-duty CPD officer had just left a city-approved party and was clearly intoxicated before getting behind the wheel.

The lawsuit alleges Longview police officers allowed a woman in crisis to retrieve a gun on New Year's Day, leading to a deadly confrontation on the porch of her house.

The officer herself, Tangie Brown, and the bar where she had been before the crash, were already named in the wrongful death lawsuit.

CHICAGO - The City of Chicago has been named as a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from last December when an off-duty police officer, accused of driving drunk, fatally struck a pedestrian. The lawsuit alleged that Officer Tangie Brown ...