Court: Little Rock woman can't sue city for son's slaying

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Little Rock woman whose 15-year-old son was fatally shot by a police officer cannot try to hold the city or a retired police chief accountable in her wrongful death lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Thursday upheld a decision that dismissed the city of Little Rock and Stuart Thomas as defendants in Sylvia Perkins' lawsuit, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

Thomas was police chief in 2012 when Officer Joshua Hastings shot into a car being driven by Perkins' son, Bobby Moore, killing the teen in a parking lot outside a Little Rock apartment complex.

Hastings was fired and charged with manslaughter in Moore's death, but he wasn't convicted.