[3] He then approached a group of four individuals who had been partying in the park[3][4] and had some form of verbal altercation with them.
[3] Servin fired on the group, hitting Rekia Boyd in the head, and Antonio Cross in the hand.
Initially, the Chicago police department claimed that Servin had discharged his weapon after Cross had approached him with a gun.
[5] The Boyd family quickly responded that the object was in fact a cell phone.
[12] The city paid $4.5 million to Boyd's family to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit.