(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — The suburban Minneapolis city of Brooklyn Center has tentatively agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Daunte Wright, the unarmed Black man who was fatally shot during a 2021 traffic stop when a white police officer says she mistook her handgun for a stun gun.

The development was announced Tuesday by attorneys for Wright’s family, who said the pending agreement includes reforms in Brooklyn Center police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that led to the death of the 20-year-old Wright.

Antonio Romanucci, one of the family’s attorneys, said in a statement that Wright’s loved ones hope the changes in police policy prevent similar incidents from occurring.

“Nothing can explain or fill the emptiness in our lives without Daunte or our continued grief at the senseless way he died,” Wright’s parents, Katie and Arbuey Wright, said in a joint statement to ABC affiliate KSTP. “But in his name, we will move forward, and it was important to us that his loss be used for positive change in the community, not just for a financial settlement for our family.”

The parents added, “We hope Black families, people of color, and all residents feel safer now in Brooklyn Center because of the changes the city must make to resolve our claims.”

Romanucci and Jeff Storms, another Wright family lawyer, said the settlement will be the third largest ever awarded in Minnesota history. The city of Minneapolis reached a $27-million settlement with the family of George Floyd, the 46-year-old man who died at the hands of police in May 2020, and agreed to a $20-million settlement with the family of Justine Ruszcyk Damond, who was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer in 2017 after she called 911 to report an assault in progress near her home.

Wright was killed on April 11, 2021, after then-Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter and an officer she was training pulled him over for driving a car with expired registration tags and for having an air freshener dangling from his rearview mirror, which is illegal in the state of Minnesota.

After stopping Wright, who was with his girlfriend, police learned of a warrant for him for an outstanding weapons violation. Wright was ordered out of his vehicle and struggled with police when they attempted to handcuff him.

During the confrontation, which was captured on police body-camera video, Potter, a 26-year police veteran, yelled “Taser! Taser! Taser!” But instead of deploying a stun gun, she drew her handgun and shot Wright in the chest as his vehicle sped away and crashed.

A Hennepin County jury found Potter guilty in December 2021 of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison and fined $1,000.

The final terms of the settlement with Wright’s family are pending an agreement on “substantial and meaningful non-monetary relief,” the Wright family attorneys said in a statement.

In addition to more extensive training for Brooklyn Center police officers on “officer intervention, implicit bias, weapons confusion, de-escalation, and mental health crises” and changes in policies, the family is seeking the establishment of a permanent memorial for their son in the city about 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis.

The city of Brooklyn Center has not responded to a request for comment from ABC News.

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(SAN ANTONIO,     Texas) — Lina Sardar Khil disappeared from a park near her family’s home in San Antonio in December and six months later, police appear no closer to finding the 4-year-old.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus spoke out about the case in an interview with KSAT, an ABC affiliate in San Antonio, and said that leads regarding Lina’s case have slowed.

“Nobody disappears into thin air. Something happened to her. We just haven’t been able to discover what it was,” McManus said in an interview published on Tuesday.

McManus said that initially the missing person’s unit of the San Antonio Police Department was investigating Lina’s disappearance, but now the special victim’s unit is handling the investigation. He added that police are using resources that they would usually utilize in an abduction case, but Lina’s case is still classified as a missing persons case.

“We still don’t have any evidence or proof that it was an abduction,” McManus said. “So we still we’re doing it. It’s kind of a hybrid missing person and abduction,” he said.

“If there were video, if there were any kind of evidence of an abduction, we would have classified as an abduction. But since we don’t have that, we can’t classify it as an abduction,” McManus said.

The San Antonio Police Department did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for further comment.

Lina, who turned 4 years-old on Feb. 20, was last seen on Dec. 20 at a park on the 9400 block of Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio between 4:30 p.m. and 5:10 p.m., according to police. The park is near the family’s home at the Villa Del Cabo apartment complex.

Lina has brown eyes and straight, brown hair, and was last seen wearing a black jacket, red dress and black shoes, according to police.

She was out of sight from her mother for an unknown amount of time before she realized Lina was nowhere to be found, according to the San Antonio Police Department. The FBI field office in San Antonio has also been working with police on this case.

Her family had held out hope that she would be found to celebrate her 4th birthday at home, but her family had no answers months after she went missing.

“Her light is missing from her family and community. Our continuous prayer is that she will be back in the arms of those that love her,” Pamela Allen, who is representing the Khil family, told ABC News in February.

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Asked if the hope of finding Lina alive has diminished as time passes, McManus said, “Unfortunately it does, to be candid.”

“We are still devoting the resources necessary to locate her based on the tips we get,” he said.

Lina’s family is part of an Afghan refugee community in San Antonio. They arrived in the United States in 2019 and speak Pashto.

Lina’s mother, Zarmeena Sardar Khil, is pregnant with her second child. She spoke with FOX 29 in San Antonio through a translator in February.

“I am missing my child, I cannot forget her and it is affecting me a lot and my other child who is coming to this world,” she said.

“We all have the same pain, it doesn’t matter that I am from Afghanistan, I have a different culture, different religion. What we have in common is the pain of motherhood as a human, is the same as all people,” she added.

The Afghan community in the city, along with a group of nonprofits and organizations have rallied behind the family, joining search crews, fundraising and raising awareness about Lina’s case.

The Islamic Center of San Antonio announced in February that it increased a $120,000 reward for any information on Lina to $200,000. Meanwhile, Crime Stoppers of San Antonio has offered $50,000 for information resulting in the arrest or indictment of a suspect accused of involvement in Lina’s disappearance, bringing the latest total to $250,000.

The Eagles Flight Advocacy & Outreach organization, a San Antonio-based nonprofit, joined the search in early January, with about 150 people from the Afghan community showing up to help.

Allen, the CEO of the group, became the family’s spokesperson after meeting the Khils through her organization’s work. She told ABC News last month that the family believes Lina was abducted.

“We believe someone has her,” she said. “And so that this is what the family believes — that someone has their daughter and hopefully keeping her alive.”

An FBI dive team ended a search for Lina in January without finding any trace of the girl, authorities said.

In January, Allen’s organization shared a newly surfaced photo taken by a family member of Lina the day she disappeared in hopes that details about Lina’s jewelry could assist the public in identifying her.

In the photo, which was obtained by ABC News, Lina appears to be wearing blue bangle bracelets on one wrist and gold-toned bangles on the other. She is also wearing small gold earrings and an article around her neck that Allen said is known as the Taweez, which is etched with verses from the Quran and is usually worn for protection.

Police are urging anyone with information regarding Lina or her whereabouts to come forward and contact the missing persons unit in San Antonio at 210-207-7660.

ABC News’ Kiara Alfonseca contributed to this report.

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