Family of man fatally shot by Carol Stream police gets $9.4 million settlement
The family of a man shot to death by Carol Stream police in 2024 will receive $9.4 million to settle their federal lawsuit against the village and six of its police officers.
A U.S. District Court judge accepted the settlement and closed the case Feb. 17, according to court records. Under the terms of the deal, the agreement is not an admission of liability by the defendants, nor a sign that either party prevailed.
We obtained the deal through a Freedom of Information Act request to the village. It was struck between the village’s insurer, the Intergovernmental Risk Management Agency, and Kyenna McConico and Kennetha Barnes, the sisters of Isaac Goodlow III.
Goodlow, 30, was killed Feb. 3, 2024, during a confrontation with police in his apartment. His survivors sued, alleging police used excessive force and murdered Goodlow.
DuPage County prosecutors reviewed the case and declined charges against the police officer who shot Goodlow, but also did not find the shooting justified.
Goodlow family attorney Andrew Stroth said neither he nor his clients would comment on the agreement. Carol Stream officials said only that the matter was resolved “to the mutual satisfaction” of both sides. The agreement bars the parties from publicly discussing the settlement.
According to police, the shooting occurred as officers responded to a domestic violence call from a woman reporting Goodlow had attacked her.
Police say officers tried to contact Goodlow for about 50 minutes before entering the apartment. Goodlow was shot several seconds later when, authorities said, he stepped out from behind a door and raised a bent arm. He did not have a weapon, officials later said.
Goodlow’s family disputes the police account, saying they believe he was asleep when police entered.
The lawsuit alleged Carol Stream police had a practice of using excessive force and conducting illegal raids. It also accused the police department of inadequately training its officers in the use of force.
Schaumburg man accused of FBI threat
A Schaumburg man is set to appear before a federal judge in Minneapolis this morning facing accusations he threatened an FBI agent and the agent’s family at the height of the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.
And it’s in part because of something that happened in 2024 at the Woodfield Mall.
But before we explain how, first the basics.
Jose Alberto Ramirez, 29, was indicted by a grand jury in Minnesota last month on a charge of interstate transmission of threats to injure a federal law enforcement officer.
According to an affidavit filed by another FBI agent, the victim's personal information was stolen Jan. 14, when protests and vandalism broke out after immigration agents shot a man in Minneapolis (a different shooting than the one that killed Alex Pretti, we should note).
The stolen information began circulating online where, federal prosecutors allege, Ramirez came upon it.
The next day, according to the affidavit, the FBI agent received two early morning text messages stating the sender knows where the agent's parents and children live, and “Get home safe and fast.” The agent received a profanity-laced voicemail the same morning from the same sender stating “Your day will come.”
Investigators began tracing the phone number, and that's where Woodfield comes in.
According to the affidavit, agents linked the number to an October 2024 harassment complaint to Schaumburg police. That complaint stated that someone who had been fired from a job at the mall for saying he would shoot a co-worker had been sending threatening texts from that same phone number.
The fired employee? Jose Alberto Ramirez, according to the affidavit.
Court documents say federal investigators tracked Ramirez to his home on Valley Lake Drive in Schaumburg, where he was arrested. He appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Chicago on Jan. 30, when he was ordered detained and sent to Minnesota for further proceedings.
We reached out to Ramirez's court-appointed attorney in Minneapolis, but didn't hear back.
Gun sales where?
New details are emerging about the case of an Aurora man charged in early February with gunrunning, including the various locales where he set up shop.
According to a petition prosecutors filed in DuPage County court, Daniel Curry sold guns to federal informants in parking lots, including at least one Walgreens store (town unspecified) and outside Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora.
He also sold firearms at Crescent Park in Aurora as well as the driveway of his home in the 2600 block of Moss Lane, prosecutors allege.
Curry, 42, faces 72 criminal charges in all, including counts of gunrunning, unlawful sale or delivery of a firearm, unlawful sale or delivery of an unserialized firearm or receiver and unlawful use of a weapon silencer.
Authorities allege that between September 2025 and January, Curry took part in the illegal sale of eight firearms in DuPage and Kane counties. He’s been held in the DuPage County jail while awaiting trial.
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