The City of Priceville and a Priceville Police Department officer involved in a deadly pursuit in September have both been dropped from an unrelated wrongful death lawsuit.

Officer Garry Chapman and Priceville were being sued by the mother of John Scott, Jr., who died at Huntsville Hospital just days after being arrested and taken to the Morgan County Jail on April 15.

According to a local news report , Decatur Police officers came into contact with Scott twice on that day. The first interaction followed a call from his mother to dispatch, reporting Scott was having a mental health episode. After the officers departed, she later called a second time, resulting in Scott's erratic arrest.

Chapman was at the Morgan County Jail when Scott was being booked. However, Priceville Police c

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