$8.75M settlement to children of man shot to death during domestic violence call gets council committee approval

Michael Craig’s son John Miller (from left), attorney Michael Oppenheimer, Craig’s son Patrick Jenkins and Craig’s nephew Victor Varner held a news conference in October 2021 to call on Chicago police to release body camera footage of Craig’s death. A Chicago City Council committee on Monday approved an $8.75 million with Craig’s family. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Chicago taxpayers will spend $8.75 million to compensate the family of a 61-year-old man who was shot to death by a Chicago police officer who responded to a call about a woman “threatening her husband with a knife.”

The $8.75 million award to the adult son and minor child of Michael Craig was the largest of three settlements approved Monday by the City Council’s Finance Committee for a total of $11.26 million.